“The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.” LongHelpingWifeDiseaseEaseHelp MeMuse Author:Alexander Pope
“But for disloyalty to her husband a wife is censured among men, and ,in her next life she is born in the womb of a jackal and tormented by diseases, the punishment of her sin.” MenNextBornSinWifeHusbandDiseasePunishmentWombNext LifeDisloyaltyJackals Author:Guru Nanak
“Women have suffered too much from the Conspiracy of Silence to allow that conspiracy to last one minute longer. It has been an established and admitted rule in the medical profession to keep a wife in ignorance of the fact that she has become the victim of venereal disease.” Has BeensFactsLastsSilenceToo MuchWifeMinutesIgnoranceDiseaseVictimProfessionMedicalConspiracyWomens RightsOne MinuteMedical Profession Author:Christabel Pankhurst
“The diagnosis of drunkenness was that it was a disease for which the patient was in no way responsible, that it was created by existing saloons, and non-existing bright hearths, smiling wives, pretty caps and aprons. The cure was the patent nostrum of pledge-signing, a lying-made-easy invention, which like calomel, seldom had any permanent effect on the disease for which it was given, and never failed to produce another and a worse. Here the care created an epidemic of forgery, falsehood and perjury.” WayMadeCareLyingGivenEasyWifeEffectsProduceDiseaseResponsiblePatientInventionCuresPermanentFalsehoodPledgeCapsDiagnosisEpidemicsDrunkennessSigningPatentsSaloonsPerjuryForgeryAprons Author:Jane Swisshelm
“Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes minorities and the poor. Its celebrity spokesman is blue-collar comedian George Lopez, who received a kidney from his wife.” ProblemPoorWifeDiseaseLowsBlueStrikesComedianMinoritiesProfileCollarsKidneysBlue CollarKidney Disease Author:Virginia Postrel
“There's a current notion that you should "take charge of your disease." No thanks. I'm busy. I've got cancer. I'm willing to face having cancer. I'm not willing to face having cancer with homework. I promised Dr. Pipas and Dr. Zaki that I wouldn't show up with sheaves of printouts from the Internet containing everything on Wikipedia on malignancies. They each laughed with detectable notes of relief. Although I suspect my wife has made her way into the health blog ether. Fish oil pills, raw kelp, and other untoward substances started showing up on dinner plates after I was diagnosed.” WayShouldMadeShowsFacesWifeWillingInternetDiseaseNotesNotionBusyCancerFishesCurrentsDinnerMy WifeOilThanksSubstanceReliefSuspectsLaughedPlatesDrsPillsBlogsHomeworkShowing UpContainingWikipediaMalignancyDinner Plates Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“There are worse things than finding your wife and child dead. You can watch the world do it. You can watch your wife get old and bored. You can watch your kids discover everything in the world you've tried to save them from. Drugs, divorce, conformity, disease. All the nice clean books, music, television. Distraction.” WorldChildrenBookKidsWatchesNiceWifeTelevisionDrugDiseaseFindingsCleanDivorceBoredConformityDistraction Book:Lullaby Source: Lullaby
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years.” YearsSometimesNightAsksWifeHeardDiseaseLateBreathsRoseMy WifeAlcoholDrunkGasTelephonesInvolvingOperatorsMustardMustard Gas Book:Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death Source: Slaughterhouse-five, Or, The Children's Crusade: A Duty-dance with Death
“I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person.” MenHeartPersonsDiesBlackJusticeWifeDiseaseCourtSupremeEggsSupreme CourtHeart DiseaseLiberal Media Author:Julianne Malveaux
“If your definition of homosexuality is being able to do whatever you want to, and that you should be able to go and engage in sex with another person, and that because of that, the disease you have is going to spread to that person and they're going to take it home and give it to their wife, how much tolerance should we have for that? We should have zero tolerance for that.” IfsWantGivingShouldPersonsHomeAbleSexWifeGayDiseaseDefinitionsSpreadToleranceZeroHomosexualityDo Whatever You WantZero Tolerance Author:Scott Lively