Sneezing Quotes

• I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

  James Thurber

  Allergies, Wake Up, Comedy

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• Do you know how helpless you feel if you have a full cup of coffee in your hand and you start to sneeze?

  Jean Kerr

  Coffee, Hands, Espresso

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• When God sneezed, I didn't know what to say.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Knows

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• Winter's here, and you feel lousy: You're coughing and sneezing; your muscles ache; your nose is an active mucus volcano. These symptoms -- so familiar at this time of year -- can mean only one thing: Tiny fanged snails are eating your brain.

  Dave Barry

  Mean, Winter, Volcanoes

  "Waging Germ Warfare". www.miamiherald.com. December 27, 2009.

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• It would be nice if people said, God bless you not just when you sneezed but also when you farted.

  Demetri Martin

  Nice, People, Would Be

  Twitter post from Nov 18, 2013

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• Be able to sneeze without sounding ridiculous. That means neither stifling yourself or spraying your immediate vicinity.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Mean, Literature, Able

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• The Italians have voices like peacocks - German gives me a cold in the head - and Russian is nothing but sneezing

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Voice, Giving, Cold

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• Music is the only thing in this world, with the exception of sneezing and looking at the sunset, that takes you to a place that's above the mundane. Everything else is just bullshit.

  Stephan Jenkins

  Music, Sunset, Bullshit

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Writing, Spiteful, Feels

  Letter to Lady Cynthia Asquith,?25 Nov. 1913, in Collected Letters (1962) vol. 1, p. 246

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• Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases!

  Lewis Carroll

  Boys, Littles, Doe

  Alice's Adventures inWonderland ch. 6 (1865)

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• Can't we sleep ten minutes more? I was having a lovely dream about sneezing without covering my mouth, and giving everybody germs.

  Daniel Handler

  Dream, Sleep, Giving

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• I have caught more ills from people sneezing over me and giving me virus infections than from kissing dogs.

  Barbara Woodhouse

  Funny, Dog, Kissing

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• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

  Blaise Pascal

  Sex, Greatness, Men

  Blaise Pascal (1966). “Pascal Pensées”, Penguin Classics

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• He stepped forward, took a deep breath, and doubled over in a sneezing fit. My werewolf was allergic to tortoises. Why me?

  Ilona Andrews

  Tortoises, Why Me, Fit

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.143, Penguin

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• All on-set kisses are weird, no matter who it is, especially with people standing around coughing and sneezing. It's very uncomfortable!

  Bella Heathcote

  Kissing, People, Matter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Cat on your hearthstone to this day presages, By solemnly sneezing, the coming of rain!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Rain, Cat, This Day

  Arthur Guiterman (1915). “The Laughing Muse”

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• If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.

  Linus Pauling

  Vitamins, Common, Cold

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• You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.

  Anna Deavere Smith

  Exercise, Dancer, Different

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. January 13, 2012.

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• Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.

  Ryan White

  Kissing, Sweat, People

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