Morbus Quotes & Sayings

If dogs could talk, it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one. — Andy Rooney

It just so happens that my body type and my lifestyle gives me a preclusion for high blood sugars. — Tom Hanks

One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The names for syphilis, when it began its epidemic sweep through Europe in the last decade of the fifteenth century are an exemplary illustration of the need to make a dreaded disease foreign. It was the "French pox" to the English, morbus Germanicus to the Parisians, the Naples sickness to the Florentines, the Chinese disease to the Japanese. But what may seem like a joke about the inevitability of chauvinism reveals a more important truth: that there is a link between imagining disease and imagining foreignness. — Susan Sontag

Wedding fever is one of the scariest diseases I have ever seen. — Jessica Valenti

There is a Beatrice who exists beyond the obligations of a daughter, outside the object of man's affections. — Lisa Mantchev

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest. — Wallace Thurman

With TV, you don't know, but you can build it as you go and bring some things to life. It's malleable, changeable and flexible. — Marc Blucas

Age may wrinkle the face, but lack of compassion wrinkles the heart. — Lynda Cheldelin Fell

Sometimes we must forge distance to gauge clarity in our vision and perception. — Aisha Mirza

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect. — John Oliver

What will you do with your wild & precious self? — Lance Armstrong

He told me that he spent Saturdays and Sundays and all his days off there. "With my wife, of course," he added. Just then his wife was laughing with Marie. For the first time maybe, I really thought I was going to get married. — Albert Camus

A lot of dear folks today are either in a state of cholera morbus or St. Vitus's dance [ the twitching nerve disorder chorea]. We need to get going for God. Faith in itself has no value unless it connects you with God. The Bible is constantly trying to wake us up: "Stir up the gift of God" (2 Tim. 1:6); "Break up your fallow ground" (Hos. 10:12); "Gird up the loins of your mind" (1 Peter 1:13). We need to take ourselves by the nape of the neck and make ourselves do what we know we ought to do, whether we feel like it or not.
Some — Vance Havner