A Quote by Douglas William Jerrold

Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

Douglas William Jerrold

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Late Life Like Love Measles Worse

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Douglas William Jerrold
English - Dramatist
January 3, 1803 - June 8, 1857

Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.

Lord Byron

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles.

Melinda Gates

Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us.

Josh Billings

Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has, you know, kept measles around in a way that - you know, it's a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe.

David Oshinsky

Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.

Jerome K. Jerome

Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do.

Michael Specter

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

Charles Bukowski

Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it.

Leigh Brackett

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.

Jenny McCarthy

Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.

Bill Gates

I'm never late, and I love that. Because when you've got three kids and a life to be living, and somebody's half an hour late to set, you start to get a little bit like, 'Come on. Come on, let's get this done.'

Paul Bettany

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.