101 Common Cold Quotes

Following is our list of common cold quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about so cold.

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Famous Common Cold Quotes

Go get yourself stressed all the time and the common cold becomes more common. — Robert M. Sapolsky

When the master has a cold the servants sneeze. — Polish Proverbs

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain. - Allen Ginsberg

When it snows in your nose, you catch cold in your brain. — Allen Ginsberg

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. - Andrew Denton

Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche. — Andrew Denton

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold. — Jerry Vale

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. — Alexander Fleming

Arthritis, Crohn's disease, psoriasis, depression - all of those diseases are a result of our neglected biochemistry. We need to be stimulated to help fight disease. Cold is a great stimulator. — Wim Hof

The cold is our teacher, it tells us the truth. — Wim Hof

You're gonna catch a cold from the ice inside your soul — Christina Perri

The cold is a mirror, reflecting your inner strength. — Wim Hof

If a patient is cold, if a patient is feverish, if a patient is faint, if he is sick after taking food, if he has a bed-sore, it is generally the fault not of the disease, but of the nursing. — Florence Nightingale

Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? — Friedrich Nietzsche

Insomnia: A contagious disease often transmitted from babies to parents. — Shannon Fife

The cold strengthens you more than hunger. — Yiddish Proverbs

Cold is merciless. It shows you where you are. What you are. — Wim Hof

Short Common Cold Quotes

  • I got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. — Christopher Walken
  • Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change. — Herodotus
  • Annoy your doctor and sickness comes in laughing. — Zimbabwean Proverbs
  • Misery is a communicable disease. — Martha Graham
  • In the cold I centre myself and my breathing to transfer all my heat into the centre of my body. — Wim Hof
  • You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. — Pearl Williams
  • Recent studies indicate that COVID-19's fatality rate is closer to influenza's than expected. — Peter Attia
  • Think that you have a fever before you actually have a fever. — Thai Proverbs

Common Cold Image Quotes

Common cold quote The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any.

Out Cold Quotes

Watch your back, but more importantly when you get out the shower, dry your back. Its a cold world out there. — DJ Khaled

I'm telling you this - if Stone Cold comes back out, somebody's going to get their ass whipped! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands. — Anthony Jeselnik

Common cold quote Common sense is not so common.
Common sense is not so common.

Vince Mcmahon may have bought this ring but if you get your *ss in it Stone Colds going to throw your *ss out of it — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Today we are engaged in a final, all-out battle between communistic atheism and Christianity. The modern champions of communism have selected this as the time, and ladies and gentlemen, the chips are down - they are truly down. — Joseph McCarthy

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim. — Clement Attlee

Common cold quote The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.
The greatest results in life are usually attained by common sense and perseverance.

What makes the Dead Sea dead? Because it is all the time receiving, never giving out anything. Why is it that many Christians are cold? Because they are all the time receiving, never giving out anything. — Dwight L. Moody

When I get a chance to play golf or go on a boat with good people, take the boat out and put some lobsters on the grill, get the ice-cold beer and the cigars - that's heaven here on earth. — Bernie Mac

When I am dead, and over me bright April Shakes out her rain drenched hair, Tho you should lean above me broken hearted, I shall not care. For I shall have peace. As leafey trees are peaceful When rain bends down the bough. And I shall be more silent and cold hearted Than you are now — Sara Teasdale

Great things come out of being hungry and cold. Once you're pampered, you get lazy. — Rob Zombie

So Cold Quotes

Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always. — Tite Kubo

And that's the bottom line, cuz Stone Cold said so! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

And I know this world is so cold and deceiving but I keep my head up like my nose is bleeding. — Lil Wayne

Common cold quote The most common way people give up their power is be thinking they don't have any.
The most common way people give up their power is be thinking they don't have any.

It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection. — W. E. B. Du Bois

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold. — John Jay Chapman

As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. — John Desmond Bernal

Common cold quote Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.
Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.

The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style — Stella Gibbons

So how do you make it as a mainstream entertainer? Who knows? But I think you have to be uncomfortable, right? You have to make yourself uncomfortable. All success stories depend on that. That's why I might start sleeping on hardwood floors and taking cold showers. — Logan Paul

Cold is a stressor, so if you are able to get into the cold and control your body’s response to it, you will be able to control stress. — Wim Hof

So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine. — E. Howard Hunt

Cold Quotes

Nobody, especially Vince McMahon, tells Stone Cold Steve Austin what to do, and that's the bottom line! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Too hot to handle, too cold to hold! - Randy Savage

Too hot to handle, too cold to hold! — Randy Savage

While I cannot take the time to name all the men in the State Department who have been named as members of the Communist Party and members of a spy ring, I have here in my hand a list of 205. — Joseph McCarthy

You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet. — William Booth

Tune in next week, same Stone Cold time, same Stone Cold Channel! - Stone Cold Steve Austin

Tune in next week, same Stone Cold time, same Stone Cold Channel! — Stone Cold Steve Austin

Does anybody have, a cold beer for Steve Austin?!??!!? — Stone Cold Steve Austin

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet. — Sayings

When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart. — Ajahn Brahm

I became a vegetarian after realizing that animals feel afraid, cold, hungry and unhappy like we do. I feel very deeply about vegetarianism and the animal kingdom. It was my dog Boycott who led me to question the right of humans to eat other sentient beings. — Cesar Chavez

I've been accused of being cold, snobbish, distant. Those who know me well know that I’m nothing of the sort. If anything, the opposite is true. But is it too much to ask to want to protect your private life, your inner feelings? Lots of things touch me and I don’t want to be indiscreet. — Grace Kelly

Some Common Quotes

In every physical action, unless it is purely mechanical, there is concealed some inner action, some feelings. This is how the two levels of life in a part are created, the inner and the outer. They are intertwined. A common purpose brings them together and reinforces the unbreakable bond. — Constantin Stanislavski

Stupidity is what we all have in common as human beings, but some people insist that improving it is their entitlement. — Pete Edochie

...The final secret is that there is no secret. Devote yourself to your leader. Work hard. Be grateful. Act boldly. Some may deride such suggestions as commonplace, and they'd be right: They are common. But to see them successfully enacted in this world is rare indeed. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work. — William Graham Sumner

There are some common problems in the Balkans in the settlement of which Bulgaria should also participate. — Todor Zhivkov

A common misperception of me is... that I am a tough, rough northerner, which I suppose I am really. But I'm pretty mild-mannered most of the time. It's the parts that you play I guess. I don't mind it. I'm not a tough guy. I'd like to act as a fair, easy-going, kind man at some point. — Sean Bean

Everyone has played video games at some point these days, and video games are fun. — PewDiePie

Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers

A surprising feature of herbal research is that it is seldom the rare, exotic, and beautiful plant that proves the most interesting; more often it is some common, familiar, and despised weed that is discovered to have undreamed-of virtues. — Euell Gibbons

We Christians joyfully recognize the religious values we have in common with Islam. I would like to repeat what I said to young Muslims some years ago in Casablanca: 'We believe in the same God, the one God, the living God, the God who created the world and brings his creatures to their perfection. — Pope John Paul II

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More Common Cold Quotes

Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. — Mitch Albom

Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. — David D. Burns

If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going. — Linus Pauling

The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. — William Osler

Most of the common infections - colds, flu, diarrhea - you get environmentally transmitted either in the air or on surfaces you touch. I think people under-rate surfaces. — Charles P. Gerba

That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. — Richard Schickel

Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps. — Pam Ayres

The opening of large tracts by the ice-cutters commonly causes a pond to break up earlier; for the water, agitated by the wind, even in cold weather, wears away the surrounding ice. — Henry David Thoreau

Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder. — Robert Orben

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. — Ogden Nash

I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable. — Tia Mowry

The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. — Ike Skelton

The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this knowledge with the ideals of justice, caring, and compassion summoned from our common human spiritual and moral heritage, if we are to live in peace and serenity in the twenty-first century. — Mahnaz Afkhami

Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover. — Gene Tierney

This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. — Emanuel Azenberg

both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold — Kathryn Schulz

The bravery founded upon the hope of recompense, upon the fear of punishment, upon the experience of success, upon rage, upon ignorance of dangers, is common bravery, and does not merit the name. True bravery proposes a just end, measures the dangers, and, if it is necessary, the affront, with coldness. — Francois de la Noue

Anti-Americanism may indeed have grown fiercer than it was during the cold war. It is a common phenomenon that when the angels fail to deliver, the demons become more fearsome. — Ian Buruma

The cheapness of wine seems to be a cause, not of drunkenness, but of sobriety. ...People are seldom guilty of excess in what is their daily fare... On the contrary, in the countries which, either from excessive heat or cold, produce no grapes, and where wine consequently is dear and a rarity, drunkenness is a common vice. — Adam Smith

Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless. — Charles Frazier

Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule and line, empty the haunted air, and gnome mine unweave a rainbow. — John Keats

Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with. — Earl Wilson

She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking about girls; she wasn't a cock-teaser, a cold fish, an easy lay or a sneaky bitch; she was an honorary person. She had grown to share their contempt for most women. — Margaret Atwood

Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood, one of those thick, solid logs that are put on the fire in winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. — Carlo Collodi

It's very common to say that Star Wars in the late '70s, that was kind of perfect for Cold War culture and the aftermath of Vietnam in the '60s to have an upbeat, hopeful, cartoonish tale of a hero's journey. I think those explanations are easy to offer and almost always wrong. — Cass Sunstein

I had been practicing for the Depression a long time. I wasn't involved with loss. I didn't have money to lose, but in common with millions I did dislike hunger and cold. — John Steinbeck

I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong? — John Brunner

It is commonly observed, that when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather; they are in haste to tell each other, what each must already know, that it is hot or cold, bright or cloudy, windy or calm. — Samuel Johnson

Huts they made then, and fire, and skins for clothing, And a woman yielded to one man in wedlock... ... Common, to see the offspring they had made; The human race began to mellow then. Because of fire their shivering forms no longer Could bear the cold beneath the covering sky. — Lucretius

We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We should get rid of Cold War thinking and broaden the converging points of our common interests, notwithstanding the differences in social systems and ideologies. — Wu Bangguo

Wracked with a hangover I do my muttering over a Black Velvet, a union of champagne and stout. Don't be swindled into believing there's any cure for a hangover. I've tried them all: iced tomatoes, hot clam juice, brandy peaches. Like the common cold it defies solution. Time alone can stay it. The hair of the dog? That way lies folly. It's as logical as trying to put out a fire with applications of kerosene. — Tallulah Bankhead

The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow. — Terry Pratchett

Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our own cold solitude. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. That's why I tell you yet again, and you want to keep in mind: Boccaccio doesn't understand love. Love can never be laughable. Love has nothing in common with laughter. — Milan Kundera

I know the truth now. You've figured out I'm falling in love with you and you're trying to make me stop by hurting me this way. Well it won't work. One way or another, I'm going to make you care about me. Yes, I am, unless your cold attitude kills me first. It's only fair, Connor. If I'm going to be miserable, by God, so are you. I am not a common wench and I will not be treated like one. — Julie Garwood

The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. — Michael Lewis

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