Top 139 Cough Quotes & Sayings

True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops.

We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose.

I pulled in a soft breath. My lungs were starving, crying out for air. I lay still, and a cough tickled at the back of my throat. It always happens when you're hiding, a cough, a sneeze, something. It's stupid. The body decides to screw around with you, even though it knows being quiet is the only way it's going to go on living.

A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm.

Would you like a cough drop Dolores?

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir.

Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.

The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough.

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.

I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes]

If he had to have strange powers, Aden wished they could have been more like hers. That voodoo voice would have made his life a lot easier; he could have sent certain people (cough Ozzie cough) away with no memory of him.

I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again.

It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN.

I never get sick - not a cold, not a cough or sore throat. Everyone around me can be hacking up a lung, and I'm fine.

Love and a cough cannot be hid.

Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.

In the USA in 1978, they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidence of whooping cough.

I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion.

I remember once Prince dropped by to see me when I was in Minneapolis and I was sick, with a bag of cough drops and a spoon of cough medicine. I said to him, "Hey, can I have another spoon of that? It's just over the counter," and he'd go, "No, I didn't come here to start up new drug addictions for you." And I was like, "C'mon, give me that bottle!" He was very watchful over me.

Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room.

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.

My dog has a cough. If you've never seen a dog with a cough, I recommend trying to find one. It's hilarious.

If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis.

And at one point (cough) walking into a chicks knife (cough), he'd finally won. 'I'm king of the world, bitches. Come in here and bask in my glory.' His voice echoed through the foyer, expectant eager. -Strider

If I remember right, Aelia, you had four teeth; a cough displaced two, another two more. You can now cough without anxiety all the day long. A third cough can find nothing to do in your mouth.

Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops?

Love, and a cough, are not concealed.

I do not cough for my own amusement.

Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running.

I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare.

It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid.

Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else.

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

A small cold and cough can actually stop you from going where you are.

You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble.

Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice

It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.

It's important for people to recognize that they shouldn't ignore symptoms like shortness of breath or a cough that won't go away, because these may be signs of COPD.

A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you.

My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake.

What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

Cough clenched, and vomited something chunky into the grass. Terrific. The big dog sat on his haunches and looked at William with a perplexed expression on his face. "Well, eat it back up," William hissed. "Don't waste it." Cough gave a tiny whine. "I'm not eating your puke." Cough panted at him. "No.

You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.

He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough.

I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball.

We can't get at crime unless we know what language it speaks. Otherwise, we are just suppressing the cough, not curing the disease.

Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon.

Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold.

It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

One has to be very careful after recovering from COVID, especially during season change when fever, cold and cough are common.

Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing.

My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough'

When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth.

Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough.

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Non-resident Indians love me and cough up huge sums of money to watch me fight in the ring.

Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid.

There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way.