“A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares”
Igor Stravinsky
“And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.”
Bible
“And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.”
Daniel Defoe
“A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal”
Daniel Berrigan
“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
“Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.”
William Safire
“Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worst!”
William Walsh
