#measles

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

#fourth #had #i #i can #i do

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. ↗

— Jenny McCarthy

#autism #children #measles #parents #percent

Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles! ↗

— Nevil Shute

#disease #humor #illness #measles #radioactivity

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

#americas #animal #camels #cattle #could

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#disease #infantile #mankind #measles #nationalism

Golf, like measles, should be caught young. ↗

— P. G. Wodehouse

#golf #like #measles #should #young

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

#child #children #differently #get #granted

Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#get #like #love #love is #measles

Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late in life. ↗

— Douglas Jerrold

#late #life #like #love #measles

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

#causes #children #die #diseases #easy