I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. — Woody Allen
Having children made us look differently at all these things that we take for granted, like taking your child to get a vaccine against measles or polio. — Melinda Gates
Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS. — Nelson Mandela
I caught the happy virus last night
When I was out singing beneath the stars.
It is remarkably contagious -
So kiss me. — Hafez
When you inoculate children with a polio vaccine, you don't sleep well for two or three months. — Jonas Salk
Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. — Richard Dawkins
Short Measles Quotes
I just want people to know the facts and science and the information... measles is preventable. — Barack Obama
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. — Rainer Maria Rilke
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. — Mignon McLaughlin
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. — Lord Byron
Love is like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. — Mary Roberts Rhinehart
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits. — Mignon McLaughlin
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. — P. G. Wodehouse
Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life. — Douglas William Jerrold
Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague. — Kenneth Rogoff
Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life. — Douglas Jerrold
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases. — Jared Diamond
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. — Jared Diamond
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. — Archie Kalokerinos
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday? — Erma Bombeck
The physical signs of measles are nearly the same as those of smallpox, but nausea and inflammation is more severe, though the pains in the back are less. — Avicenna
In America, you can segregate the people, but the problems will travel. From slavery to equal rights, from state suppression of dissent to crime, drugs and unemployment, I can't think of a supposedly Black issue that hasn't wasted the original Black target group and then spread like measles to outlying white experience. — June Jordan
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. — Francis Schaeffer
Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society the way a child catches measles. But people with more understanding realize that their presuppositions should be chosen after a careful consideration of what world-view is true. — Francis Schaeffer
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles. — William Lilly
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. — Anthony S. Fauci
My mama told me I was already in a hurry as a child. I even had measles and chicken pox at the same time — Muhammad Ali
Why should I be depressed? I've got enough money. I've got a job. People like me. There is no to be depressed. That's at stupid as saying there is no reason to have asthma or there is no reason to have the measles. You know you've got it. It's there. It's not about reason. — Stephen Fry
Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. — P. G. Wodehouse
Golf, like the measles, should be caught young, for, if postponed to riper years, the results may be serious. — P. G. Wodehouse
Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore. — Victoria Finlay
It is well known that measles is an important development milestone in the life and maturing processes in children. Why would anybody want to stop or delay the maturation processes of children and of their immune systems? — Viera Scheibner
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles. — Bill Gates
Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it. — Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Of those who die from avoidable, poverty-related causes, nearly 10 million, according to UNICEF, are children under five. They die from diseases such as measles, diarrhoea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. — Peter Singer
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion. — Aldous Huxley
It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them. — Jennifer Niven
Love is like the measles; the older you are when it hits you, the harder it takes. Cheer up, you won't die of it. — Leigh Brackett
Each human life hypothetically saved by implementing these [radiation] regulations costs about $2.5 billion. Such costs are absurd and immoral, especially when compared to the costs of saving lives by immunization against measles, diphtheria and pertussis, which in developing countries range between $50 and $99 per one human life saved. — Zbigniew Jaworowski
Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death. — Olive Schreiner
Love's like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life. — Douglas William Jerrold
Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death. — Margaret Atwood
Despite the debunking, you have a small group in the last five years that hasn't wanted to vaccinate their children, for instance, for measles. Then, all of sudden, we got an outbreak of measles and kids were starting to die from measles. — Melinda Gates
Love is like the measles; we can't have it bad but once, and the later in life we have it the tougher it goes with us. — Josh Billings
Legitimate authority to be, to do or to have; as the right to be a king, the right to do one's neighbor, the right to have measles, and the like. — Ambrose Bierce
Vaccines [measles] have been proven to be safe, and what happens if you don't take vaccines is children get measles and die. So the anti-vaccine crowd has, you know, kept measles around in a way that - you know, it's a tragedy, because so much is done to make sure these things are safe. — David Oshinsky
Disneyland's a mess. And it's not just the measles. Donald Duck has bird flu. Pocahontas has small pox. The Little Mermaid has crabs. And the Monorail? Mono. — Bill Maher
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
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