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Letter "S" » syphilis
«So who's perfect? Washington had false teeth. Franklin was nearsighted. Mussolini had syphilis. Unpleasant things have been said about Walt Whitman and Oscar Wilde. Tchaikovsky had his problems, too. And Lincoln was constipated.»
Author: John O'Hara
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Keywords:
constipated,
false teeth,
franklin,
Lincoln,
Mussolini,
nearsighted,
Oscar,
Oscar I,
Oscar Wilde,
syphilis,
Tchaikovsky,
unpleasant,
Walt Whitman,
Whitman,
Wilde
«It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.»
Author: Andre Gide
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About:
Age
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Keywords:
arrive at,
Frenchman,
Frenchmen,
legion,
legions,
Legion of,
Legion of Honor,
middle age,
syphilis,
The cross,
The Legion of Honor,
unthinkable
«Civilization is drugs, alcohol, engines of war, prostitution, machines and machine slaves, low wages, bad food, bad taste, prisons, reformatories, lunatic asylums, divorce, perversion, brutal sports, suicides, infanticide, cinema, quackery, demagogy, strikes, lockouts, revolutions, putsches, colonization, electric chairs, guillotines, sabotage, floods, famine, disease, gangsters, money barons, horse racing, fashion shows, poodle dogs, chow dogs, Siamese cats, condoms, peccaries, syphilis, gonorrhea, insanity, neuroses, etc., etc.»
Author: Henry Miller
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Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
asylums,
Bad Taste,
baron,
Barons,
brutal,
chow,
cinema,
colonization,
condom,
condoms,
demagogy,
electric,
electric chair,
engines,
etc.,
etc,
famine,
floods,
gangster,
gangsters,
gonorrhea,
guillotine,
horse racing,
infanticide,
lunatic,
machines,
perversion,
perversions,
poodle,
poodles,
poodle dog,
prisons,
prostitution,
quackery,
race horse,
racing,
reformatories,
reformatory,
revolutions,
sabotage,
Siamese,
strikes,
suicides,
syphilis,
wages