Measles Quotes

Nationalism is an infantile disease, the measles of mankind. (Albert Einstein)
Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. View quote
Jerome K. Jerome
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. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. View quote
Lord Byron
Franny has the measles, for one thing. Incidentally, did you hear her last week? She went on at beautiful length about how she used to fly all around the apartment when she was four and no one was home. The new announcer is worse than Grant - if possible, even worse than Sullivan in the old days. He said she surely dreamt that she was able to fly. The baby stood her ground like an angel. She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs. View quote
J. D. Salinger
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. View quote
Josh Billings
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. View quote
Melinda Gates
Today, the Princess Royal has been canonized as a secular saint, for her truly admirable international work on behalf of the Save the Children Fund. Her dedication and concern are beyond doubt, but she didn't catch them like measles. View quote
Anne, Princess Royal
White blood cells and other cells of ours actively seek out and kill foreign microbes. The specific antibodies that we gradually build up against a particular microbe infecting us make us less likely to get reinfected once we become cured. As we all know from experience, there are some illnesses, such as flu and the common cold, to which our resistance is only temporary; we can eventually contract the illness again. Against other illnesses, though-including measles, mumps, rubella, pertussis, and the now defeated smallpox - our antibodies stimulated by one infection confer lifelong immunity. That's the principle of vaccination: to stimulate our antibody production without our having to go through the actual experience of the disease, by inoculating us with a dead or weakened strain of microbe. View quote
Jared Diamond
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. View quote
Jared Diamond
The infectious diseases that regularly visited crowded Eurasian societies, and to which many Eurasians consequently developed immune or genetic resistance, included all of history's most lethal killers: smallpox, measles, influenza, plague, tuberculosis, typhus, cholera, malaria, and others. (Jared Diamond)
These notices had been written by Christopher Robin, who was the only one in the forest who could spell; for Owl, wise though he was in many ways, able to read and write and spell his own name WOL, yet somehow went all to pieces over delicate words like MEASLES and BUTTEREDTOAST. View quote
A. A. Milne
Golf, like measles, should be caught young. View quote
P. G. Wodehouse
...But love is like the measles; the later in life it affects you, the more severe the consequences" "Is there anything you can take for it? View quote
Len Deighton
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. View quote
Rainer Maria Rilke
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. View quote
Melinda Gates
Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles. View quote
William Lilly
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined. View quote
Mandy Moore
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. View quote
Olive Schreiner
Measles is probably the best argument for why there needs to be global health, and why we have to think about it as a global public good. Because in a sense, measles is the canary in the coal mine for immunization. It is, you know, highly transmissible. The vaccine costs 15 cents, so it's not - you know, shouldn't be an issue in terms of cost. (Seth Berkley)
RIGHT, n. 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. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
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. View quote
Jared Diamond
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, diarrhea, and malaria that are easy and inexpensive to treat or prevent. View quote
Peter Singer
If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles. View quote
Jenny McCarthy