Plague

Authoritarian, paralyzing, circular, occasionally elliptical stock phrases, also jocularly referred to as nuggets of wisdom, are a malignant plague, o...

José Saramago

A southwest blow on ye and blister you all o'er!''The red plague rid you!''Toads, beetles, bats, light on you!''As wicked dew as e'er my mother brushe...

Gary D. Schmidt

One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

Robert Burton

Other Definitions of Worry Anxiety is the great modern plague. But faith can cure it.

Smiley Blanton

Humans are the unrivaled plague the nature has even seen.

M.F. Moonzajer

...If I were an angel of the Lord, I would mark the doors of each of my children's homes with an X, so that plague and misfortune would pass over them...

Mordecai Richler

Twas doing nothing was his curse. Is there a vice can plague us worse?

Hannah More