Yellow Fever Epidemic

Famous quotes containing the words yellow, fever and/or epidemic:

“The Lightning showed a Yellow Beak
And then a livid Claw.”
—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886)

“Y’know Pete, back where I come from folks call that love stuff “quick poison” or “slow poison.” If it’s quick poison it hurts you all over real bad like a shock of electricity. But if it’s slow poison, well, it’s like a fever that aches in your bones for a thousand years.”
—Dalton Trumbo (1905–1976)

“This movie deals with the epidemic of the way we live now.
What an inane cardplayer. And the age may support it.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)