Top 382 Plague Quotes & Sayings

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

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

We are a plague on the Earth.

The plague of gold strikes far and near.

A plague on both your houses.

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.

The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.

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.

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

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

Facebook and Twitter are like a horrible digital plague.

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.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

Avoid cynical and negative people like the plague. They are killers of potential.

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

Overcriminalization has become a national plague.

Imagine a plague you catch through your ears.

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

Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.

Adolescence is a plague on the senses.

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

What hurts is not being homosexual, but they tell it in your face as if you were a plague.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Gossiping is the plague of little towns.

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

I could do without the Bubonic Plague.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

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

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

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.

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

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

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

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

War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

False fears are a plague, a modern plague!

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.

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

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

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

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

We have to tackle the plague of gun violence.

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

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

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

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder.

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

What a plague love is!

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

Idleness is the great plague of India.

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