1348 Plague Quotes & Sayings

Farewell!" was the cry of my heart as I left him. Despair added, "Farewell for ever! — Charlotte Bronte

Why would you want to work for a living if you could just joke around? Being a celebrity expands your commercial possibilities. — Jerry Seinfeld

None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others. — Baltasar Gracian

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully. — Gyorgy Ligeti

Your lady's necklace?" Cecily said. "Well, I confess it does not suit you." He stepped toward Cecily and drew the glittering chain over her dark head. The ruby fell against her throat as if it were made for her. — Cassandra Clare

There comes a time when to be uncompromising is the only realistic course. — Hamid Algar

If you stand at an election and put a manifesto in front of people saying you're going to improve health care, you have to stick by that. — Bob Ainsworth

Writing a book is burning your brain to enlighten another man's mind — Bangambiki Habyarimana

I'd done so many things I wasn't supposed to do that by then I was ready to try any idea that came to me. — Jean M. Auel

Newspapers tell beforehand what is going to happen - maybe. — Carl Sandburg

I don't think people fully appreciate the trauma associated with losing. It takes a lot out of you, year after year. — Jerry West

[According to 1348 theorists, poisoning of Christian water by Jews was the cause of Black Death.]

Even the poison used to contaminate the Christian water supply was described in meticulous detail. It was "about the size of an egg," except when it was the "size of a nut" or a "large nut," "a fist" or "two fists"- and it came packaged in "a leather pouch," except when it was packaged in "linen cloth," "a rag," or a "paper coronet"; and the poison was variously made from lizards, frogs, and spiders- when it was not made from the hearts of Christians and from Holy Communion wafers. — John Kelly

I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with. The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried. That's why programming - or buying software - on the basis of "lists of features" is a doomed and misguided effort. The features can be thrown together, as in a garbage can, or carefully laid together and interwoven in elegant unification, as in APL, or the Forth language, or the game of chess. — Ted Nelson

There are other kinds of people in this world. There is the kind like Tris, who, after suffering and betrayal, could still find enough love to lay down her life instead of her brother's. Or the kind like Cara, who could still forgive the person who shot her brother in the head. Or Christina, who lost friend after friend but still decided to stay open, to make new ones. Appearing in front of me is another choice, brighter and stronger than the ones I gave myself. — Veronica Roth

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you. — Kelly Clarkson

We shall never find happiness by looking at our prayers, our doings, or our feelings; it is what Jesus is, not what we are, that gives rest to the soul. — Charles Spurgeon

Bull of September 1348 in which he said that Christians who imputed the pestilence to the Jews had been "seduced by that liar, the Devil," and that the charge of well-poisoning and ensuing massacres were a "horrible thing." He pointed out that "by a mysterious decree of God" the plague was afflicting all peoples, including Jews; that it raged in places where no Jews lived, and that elsewhere they were victims like everyone else; therefore the charge that they caused it was "without plausibility." He urged the clergy to take Jews under their protection as he himself offered to do in Avignon, but his voice was hardly heard against local animus. — Barbara W. Tuchman