Top 382 Bubonic Plague Quotes & Sayings

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

I'd been reading Daniel Defoe's Journal of the Plague Year when the [1992 Los Angeles] riots broke out and I began to see them both - L.A. and the London plague - as the same event. A time of crisis. A time when rich and poor get thrown together - and, suddenly one sees alternatives. I began to think about what happens when the containment of a presumed danger through the regimentation of space breaks down, such as when South-Central L.A. began to invade Beverly Hills.

The various systems of doctrine that have held dominion over man have been demonstrated to be true beyond all question by rationalists of such power-to name only a few-as Aquinas and Calvin and Hegel and Marx. Guided by these master hands the intellect has shown itself more deadly than cholera or bubonic plague and far more cruel. The incompatibility with one another of all the great systems of doctrine might surely be have expected to provoke some curiosity about their nature.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

The plague did not lead to Europe’s economic collapse. Rather, Europe’s currency-driven economic collapse led to the plague.

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.

Plague might be a social incompetent, but he was unquestionably a genius.

There is a plague on Man, the opinion that he knows something.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

I vow and protest there's more plague than pleasure with a secret.

Tis the strumpet's plague To beguile many, and be beguiled by one.

PLAGUE, n. In ancient times a general punishment of the innocent for admonition of their ruler, as in the familiar instance of Pharaoh the Immune. The plague today . . . is merely Nature's fortuitous manifestation of her purposeless objectionableness.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

I avoid subways like the plague because I'm claustrophobic.

I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past

AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.

A plague on both your houses.

To be fair, I don't think it's a plague to say I have the misfortune of making movies for a living.

To me war is something to be outgrown, recognized as immature, wasteful, and so destructive to life that human beings should shun it ... as they once shunned bubonic plague.

Among women, guilt spreads with the rampant fury of bubonic plague. ... I used to feel guilty if the cat had matted fur.

Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

If you're someone who geniunally believes that women don't deserve or aren't as much as men, you're like the plague. On the big history chart, you're the plague....It's just pointless and deadly.

[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.

The priesthood holds consummate power. It can protect you from the plague of pornography-and it is a plague-if you are succumbing to its influence. If one is obedient, the priesthood can show how to break a habit and even erase an addiction. Holders of the priesthood have that authority and should employ it to combat evil influences.

If the federal government is truly serious about doing something with the AIDS virus, we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague.... It is difficult to understand the public policy towards AIDS. It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

We are a plague on the Earth.

From winter, plague and pestilence, good lord, deliver us!

Idleness is the great plague of India.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

We're a violent nation, and we need to confront it. This gun plague has to stop.

Golf: A plague invented by the Calvinistic Scots as a punishment for man's sins.

I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

Throughout the early Christian period, every great calamity - famine, earthquake, and plague - led to mass conversions, another indirect influence by which epidemic diseases contributed to the destruction of classical civilization. Christianity owes a formidable debt to bubonic plague and to smallpox, no less than to earthquake and volcanic eruptions.

If America was trying to keep the bubonic plague out of its hemisphere, Canadians would import it just to show their independence of American foreign policy.

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

The dread of futility has been my life-long plague.

Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centered that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run!

Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.

What a plague love is!

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me.

Only if there's an outbreak of the bubonic plague.

A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.

The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.

I make a wonderful cure-all called Four Thieves, just like my mum did. It's cider vinegar, 36 cloves of garlic and four herbs, representing four looters of plague victims' homes in 1665 who had their sentences reduced from burning at the stake to hanging for explaining the recipe that kept them from catching the plague.

Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind.