If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.
The want of occupation is no less the plague of society than of solitude.
I refuse to repent, and I won't plague myself over what is done and past
Throughout most of our history, nothing - not flood, famine, plague, or new weapons - has endangered humanity one-tenth as much as the narcissistic ego, with its self-aggrandizing presumptions and its hell-hound spawn of fear and greed.
The Athenians regularly maintained a number of degraded and useless beings at the public expense; and when any calamity, such as plague, drought, or famine, befell the city, they sacrificed two of these outcast scapegoats.
Nature made every fop to plague his brother, Just as one beauty mortifies another.
I really dread serious people. Especially serious, dogmatic people. I regard them as sort of what Reich called the emotional plague. I regard them as very dangerous.
Left alone, human beings are a plague. They multiply relentlessly, consuming every resource, destroying everything they touch.
I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.
Of course, there are questions that plague all of us. How did we get here? What happens when we die? Is there a heaven? Am I on the list? Who let the dogs out?
Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.
Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both.
TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell summoning us to the sacrifice.
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.
Pay no attention to pop culture, for it is what poisons our minds and divides our children. Materialism promotes negative values and egotism. Eliminate all of it. It is the plague of Big Business.
Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.
about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one more thing to be had. It is the mythos of moderns.
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.