Quotes with scourge

Quotes 1 till 4 of 4.

• Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

  Saul Landau
   
  - +

   0
• Teenagers travel in droves, packs, swarms....To the librarian, they're a gaggle of geese. To the cook, they're a scourge of locusts. To department stores they're a big beautiful exaltation of larks... all lovely and loose and jingly.

  Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
  American advertising executive
  - +

   0
• Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with blows.

  Lucretius
  Roman poet and philosopher (95 - 55)
  - +

   0
• We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war.

  Arthur Henderson
  British Labour politician
  - +

   0

Subjects in these quotes:

• environment
• executioner
• department
• exaltation
• sufferings
• humanity

Greatest-Quotations.com

Already since 2003 providing you with the best quotations