“Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!”
William Walsh
“I can't say I hate cats, but holy cow, dogs are a horse of another color.”
“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”
Daniel Defoe
“And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.”
Bible
“The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.”
Wilhelm Reich
“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal”
Daniel Berrigan
“Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.”
William Safire
