What plagues people is not those who don't love them, but those who do.
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
The plague of man is boasting of his knowledge.
Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.
I've never had high expectations of my work and I certainly am not going to let that plague my thoughts. I'm just going to continue to choose what feels right for me at the time and go with it.
Idleness is the great plague of India.
[Jews were] fomenting a general plague on the whole world.
A plague on both your houses.
It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence.
More than one philosopher has claimed that we ever remain children, far beneath the indurated layers that make up the armour of adulthood. Armour encumbers, restricts the body and soul within it. But it also protects. Blows are blunted. Feelings lose their edge, leaving us to suffer naught but a plague of bruises, and, after a time, bruises fade.
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.
He'd always thought Roag was one rat short of a plague.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
Gossiping is the plague of little towns.
Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today. . . tomorrow.
The most important thing to remember is that inflation is not an act of God, that inflation is not a catastrophe of the elements or a disease that comes like the plague. Inflation is a policy.
where are the gods the gods hate us the gods have run away the gods have hidden in holes the gods are dead of the plague they rot and stink too there never were any gods there’s only death
Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life.
Tell them I have the headache--no, the plague! I need something nice and contagious.
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
