Scurvy Quotes

What are you most scared of?" she asked and I wished she hadn't. I didn't like admitting it.
"I'm scared of dying alone. — Kenya Wright

Here are also the two vessels, but the San Carlos without sailors, all having died of the scurvy, except two. — Junipero Serra

The new age of liberated women and how most women were fighting to pay half the expenses. — Anonymous

Homesteads fronting on streams went like oranges aboard a scurvy-ridden ship. — Marc Reisner

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back. — Thomas O'Malley

Metaphorically speaking, I always make room for any evidence of scurvy in my characters, any mitigating ailments. — Mary Karr

Cultures that don't laugh at themselves are cults. — Paul Buchheit

A people who are intent on getting something-for-nothing from government cannot cavil over the infringement of their rights by that government; — Anonymous

Clearly prize money received more serious attention than scurvy or signals. — Barbara W. Tuchman

A near-fatal case of scurvy being the only reason I can imagine drinking something with grapefruit juice in it. — James S.A. Corey

Get back, you scurvy braggart! Back, you rogue! — J.K. Rowling

[The play] is like to be a very conceited scurvy one, in plain English. — Ben Jonson

Growing up, Magic Johnson was my idol. He was a good example. He could always pass the ball extremely well and get his teammates involved. — Jason Kidd

I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood. — Aisha Tyler

I've studied men from my topsy-turvy Close, and I reckon, rather true. Some are fine fellows: some, right scurvy; Most, a dash between the two. — George Meredith

i will wade out until my thighs are steeped in burning flowers. i will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air — E. E. Cummings

A very scurvy fellow. — William Shakespeare

Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy. — Craig Ferguson

Life moves on and so should we — Spencer Johnson

He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague. — Salman Rushdie

Don't overlook the good for the perfect. — Robert Lewis

Before Lind's experiments, scurvy was not clearly defined as a disease.The term was used as a catchphrase to include all manner of nautical ailments. — Stephen R. Bown

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one? — Imogen Cunningham

I look like I have beriberi and scurvy. — Lou Holtz