#measles

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

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

#another #diseases #estimated #europeans #far

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