Measles Quotes

On visiting Hamburg, Germany, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power: "I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word `Jude` painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn`t know what hit them and didn`t know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn`t been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvah, and it was the first time since I`d had the measles that I was too sick to eat."

As soon as you have one, all those dormant maternal instincts start popping out all over you, like German measles.

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.

Love`s like the measles - all the worse when it comes late in life.

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.

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.

Of my infancy I can speak little, only I do remember that in the fourth year of my age I had the measles.

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