(67 quotes found)
“Passion is a sort of fever in the mind, which ever leaves us weaker than it found us.”
William Penn
“I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.”
John Keats
“Feed a cold; starve a fever”
American Proverb
“After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.”
William Shakespeare
“If envy were a fever, all the world would be ill”
Danish Proverb
“The great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever trees.”
Rudyard Kipling
“When I was so sick about ten days ago, I had a fever-induced epiphany: I needed to make several changes in my life. I needed to redefine some boundaries, and re-organize my priorities.”
Wil Wheaton
“Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.”
Wendell Phillips
“An envious feverOf pale and bloodless emulation.”