Quotes About Plague

the disease killed eight thousand...between its first appearance in October 1635 and its eventual disappearance in July 1637...The appalling impact of the plague had two significant consequences. One was that it created a shortage of labor and thus resulted in a rise in wages as employers competed for man-power.

What a plague love is!

Edgar Caswall tortured his brain for a long time unavailingly, to think of some means of getting rid of what he, as well as his neighbours, had come to regard as a plague of birds.

The robot ship and the plague capsule waited there, intact, symbolic reminders of the horrific machine tyranny … which few people alive could remember. But they knew what they had been taught, and they knew what to hate.

In a time haunted by drought, plague, and war, with no social or medical services available to the average person, with public literacy and the scientific method unheard of, skeptical thinking was rare.

Country is based on folk music, which has been around for centuries—" "So has the plague.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.

struck fear into medieval hearts—hot baths, which had a dangerously moistening and relaxing effect on the body. Once heat and water created openings through the skin, the plague could easily invade the entire body. For the next two hundred years, whenever the plague threatened, the cry went out: "Bathhouses and bathing, I beg you to shun them or you will die.

In Spain, the early Christian concerns about the corrupting influence of bathing and the late medieval worries about the plague were compounded by the Moorish occupation. Because the Moor was clean, the Spanish decided that Christians should be dirty.

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!' 'The red plague rid you!' 'Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!' 'As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushed with raven's feather from unwholesome fen drop on you.' 'Strange stuff' 'Thou jesting monkey thou' 'Apes with foreheads villainous low' 'Pied ninny' 'Blind mole...' -The Caliban Curses

It was another terrible spiritual picture of the monstrous evil of idolatry that day. And it was Phineas' cleansing act that stopped the plague. From that moment on, the sickness released its stranglehold on the Israelites and faded away. Phineas would receive a promise of perpetual priesthood, because that very day Phineas was jealous for Yahweh and made atonement for the people of Israel.

Dzi? zreszt? role nasze si? zmieniaj?. Wasza ?ar?oczna Europa zdycha, jak klacz, która z?ama?a nog? przed ostatni? przeszkod?. Zdycha, nie zd??ywszy po?re? wszystkiego, ze zd?awionym od zbytniej ?apczywo?ci prze?ykiem. Nie jest to przypadek, ?e zaraz?, która j? dobija, jest d?uma, nasza stara azjatycka znajoma.

W miejsce d?umy, co zala? mia?a ca?y ?wiat, a oczy?ci?a tylko plac pod nasz? budowl?, wzniecimy wielk? zaraz? idei, która morzem oczyszczaj?cego ognia rozleje si? po starym kontynencie, drwi?c z armij, kordonów i granic.

You suitors who plague my mother, you, you insolent, overweening . . .

I am so pro-swine flu... I want it. We need a plague. It's got to happen; don't be afraid. It's only going to kill the weak.

We all know how it went when Europe changed from a culture addicted to depressants to one high on stimulants [...] Within two hundred years of Europe's first cup, famine and the plague were historical footnotes. Governments became more democratic, slavery vanished, and the standards of living and literacy went through the roof. War became less frequent and more horrible.

Other cultures might rush and stumble about, have revelations, build empires, die of plague even, but Mewt continued at her own pace, blessed by the otherworld. It bent its knee to conquerors, yet miraculously remained untainted by their presence. And the conquerors, having secured the diamond of the world, saw no reason to reshape its polished facets.

All gods have their Chosen Ones, who through devotion and piety believe themselves impervious to divine plague or curse.

'Love' is so short of perfect rhymes that convention allows half-rhymes like 'move.' The alternative is a plague of doves, or a kind of poem in which the poet addresses his adored both as 'love' and as 'guv' - a perfectly decent solution once, but only once, in a while.

Of all the plagues a lover bears, Sure rivals are the worstI can endure my own despair, But not another's hope.

Bubonic plague killed a third of the people in Europe, but it destroyed the old governments and allowed their citizens to gain freedom. The result was a burst of creativity and prosperity never seen before.

War prosperity is like the prosperity that an earthquake or a plague brings. Ludwig von Mises

In the hundred and fifty years before the great visitation of 1665 there were only a dozen years when London was free from plague.