
Bernard Levin, "Uneasy Lies the Head", The Times, 23 January 1989.
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A collection of quotes on the topic of measles, likeness, love, life.
Bernard Levin, "Uneasy Lies the Head", The Times, 23 January 1989.
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“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”
"On Being in Love".
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow (1886)
Context: Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it. Also like the measles, we take it only once... No, we never sicken with love twice. Cupid spends no second arrow on the same heart.
“Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.”
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
When asked by Viereck if he considered himself to be a German or a Jew. A version with slightly different wording is quoted in Einstein: His Life and Universe http://books.google.com/books?id=dJMpQagbz_gC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA386#v=onepage&q&f=false by Walter Isaacson (2007), p. 386
1920s, Viereck interview (1929)
Variant: Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Context: It is quite possible to be both. I look upon myself as a man. Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
"Only wedding vows"
Charity (1997; Harper Paperback, p. 280)
The Second Amendment Is a Gun-Control Amendment, The New Yorker (2015)
Mazurek, Maria (7 July 2017): Cudowna armia, która broni naszego ciała http://plus.gazetakrakowska.pl/magazyn/a/cudowna-armia-ktora-broni-naszego-ciala,12271571. Gazeta Krakowska (in Polish), pp. 18–19.
“Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified