Pox Quotations

Americans spend more money on Botox, face lifts and tummy tucks than on the age-old scourges of polio, small pox and malaria.

My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

This is how sad my life is: I got a scar from scratching my chicken pox too much. That's my big scar story. I really have no major scars.

On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me! Et tu, Brute!' He rolled up the paper and hit Jem over the head with it.

Demon pox,' said Will with the satisfaction of the truly vindicated.

Demon pox. There's always demon pox.

Bureaucrats are a pox. They are supposed to be necessary. Certain chemicals in the body are supposed to be necessary to life, but cause death the moment they increase beyond a suitable limit

A pox on both his testicles! (Esperetta)

death ... so seldom happens nowadays in the awesome quiet of a familiar chamber. Most of us die violently, thanks to the advance of science and warfare. If by chance we are meant to end life in our beds, we are whisked like pox victims to the nearest hospital, where we are kept as alone and unaware as possible of the approach of disintegration.

Love has been not unaptly compared to the small-pox, which most people have sooner or later.

Maybe Ridley was like chicken pox; you could only catch it once.

Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.

Depressions are very cyclical, they happen once every five years. When I was on TV, yes I was effervescent, you can't fake it. It [depression] comes like the pox.

Laughter is infectious, like small pox or gay.

A pox o’ your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!

My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time