Pox Quotes

• A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Tempest, Throat

  William Shakespeare, Virginia Mason Vaughan, Alden T. Vaughan (1999). “The Tempest: Third Series”, p.147, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon Pox, Demon

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• My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time

  Muhammad Ali

  Children, Mama, Chickens

  Twitter post from Aug 31, 2010

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• Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day,
  Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away;
  . . . .
  To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint,
  Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

  Alexander Pope

  Night, Dancing, Age

  Alexander Pope (1822). “The Works of Alexander Pope”, p.373

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• Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

  Stan Smith

  Laughter, Gay

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• Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.

  Cassandra Clare

  Demon Pox, Satisfaction, Said

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.882, Simon and Schuster

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• My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

  Jack Johnson

  Chickens, Caught, Over It

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• On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Proud, Firsts

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox Just how is it acquired? One must first go to the bad part of town Until one is very tired Demon Pox, oh, Demon Pox I had it all along- No, not the pox, you foolish blocks I meant this very song- For i was right, and you were wrong!

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Block, Tired

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• In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Regret, Children, Taken

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin”, p.152, Applewood Books

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• Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono.

  Bill Maher

  Ducks, Bird, Mermaid

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• This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

  Lewis Black

  Stories, Too Much, Scar

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• Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

  Ezra Pound

  Causes, Body, Limits

  Ezra Pound (1960). “Impact: essays on ignorance and the decline of American civilization”

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• I am sorry the infernal Divinities, who visit mankind with diseases, and are therefore at perpetual war with Doctors, should have prevented my seeing all you great Men at Soho to-day-Lord! what inventions, what wit, what rhetoric, metaphysical, mechanical and pyrotecnical, will be on the wing, bandy'd like a shuttlecock from one to another of your troop of philosophers! while poor I, I by myself I, imprizon'd in a post chaise, am joggled, and jostled, and bump'd, and bruised along the King's high road, to make war upon a pox or a fever!

  Erasmus Darwin

  Kings, Sorry, War

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• Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

  Peter Lewis Allen

  World, Disease, Voyages

  "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

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• Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Age, Malaria, Botox

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• We should avoid being backward-looking, concerned with restoration and reaction, for it is the last few centuries that have spawned the pox that is now devouring us.
  It is a matter of returning to archaic and ancestral values, while at the same time envisioning the future as something more than the extension of the present.

  Guillaume Faye

  Restoration, Matter, Lasts

  Guillaume Faye, Michael O'Meara (2010). “Archeofuturism”, p.18, Arktos

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• Just as the chicken pox virus continues to live quietly in the body after the disease is gone, the god virus may live quietly in the host until something evokes it.

  Darrel Ray

  Religion, Gone, Body

  "The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture". Book by Darrel Ray, 2009.

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• Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the swelling sets in - Jem: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS DEMON POX.

  Cassandra Clare

  Lying, Yellow, Green

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• Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.

  Kami Garcia

  Chickens

  "Beautiful Darkness". Book by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, 2010.

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• The reason why the ancient world was so pure, light and serene was that it knew nothing of the two great scourges : the pox and Christianity.

  Adolf Hitler

  Light, Two, World

  Adolf Hitler (1972). “Secret conversations, 1941-1944”, Octagon Press, Limited

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• Demon pox," said Sophie. "Mr. Lightwood's got it, has had for years, and it'll kill him in a right couple of months if he doesn't get the cure. And Mortmain said he can get it for him." The room exploded in a hubbub. Charlotte raced over to Sophie; Henry called after her; Will leaped from his chair and was dancing in a circle.

  Cassandra Clare

  Couple, Years, Circles

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.867, Simon and Schuster

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• Their grandchildren had reminded Will of the song about demon pox he had taught them- when they were much too young, Tessa had always thought- and that they had all memorized. They sang it all together and out of tune, scandalizing Sophie.

  Cassandra Clare

  Song, Grandchildren, Together

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1432, Simon and Schuster

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• I was just thinking of bundling up Cecily and feeding her to the ducks at Hyde Park," said Will, pushing his wet hair back and favoring Jem with a rare smile. "I could use your assistance." "Unfortunately, you may have to delay your plans for suicide a bit longer. Gabriel Lightwood is downstairs, and I have two words for you. Two of your favorite words, at least when you put them together." "'Utter simpleton'?" inquired Will. "'Worthless upstart'?" Jem grinned. "'Demon pox,'" he said.

  Cassandra Clare

  Suicide, Thinking, Two

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.946, Simon and Schuster

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• No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

  Sabrina Jeffries

  Husband, Disease, Dangerous

  Sabrina Jeffries (2011). “Sabrina Jeffries - The School for Heiresses Series: Never Seduce a Scoundrel, Only a Duke Will Do, Beware a Scot's Revenge and an excerpt from To Wed a Wild Lord”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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