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Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid. -- Benjamin Franklin
My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said,'Cough' -- Henny Youngman
Cough up a lung where I'm from marcy son, aint nothin nice -- Jay-Z
Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner. -- Ally Carter
Love and a cough cannot be hid. -- George Herbert
I never let them cough. They wouldn't dare. -- Ethel Barrymore
Sometimes I tic or twitch or cough, and it's a very public thing. -- Tim Howard
I think coughing up slugs was quite hard. Ron has a scene where he has to cough up these giant slugs. -- Rupert Grint
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language. -- David Small
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough. -- Barbra Streisand
I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. The title of this movie should have been 'Punch Adams!' -- Gene Siskel
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no idea what it might do. -- Michael Specter
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. -- Anthony Fauci
I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion. -- Susanna Kearsley
I tell people, if you really want me to look that good, why don't you cough up about $2 million more and hire Alec or Billy? If you want me to do it, this is what you get. -- Daniel Baldwin
I'll cough up the bitter truth right now, at the risk of losing my Feminism Club Decoder Ring: I didn't go see 'Inside Out' for Amy Poehler, though she's terrific. I went to see my dark prince, Lewis Black. -- MaryJanice Davidson
Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections. -- Ezekiel Emanuel
A lot of people have a cough that doesn't go away, or go up and down stairs and get shortness of breath, and they don't think about COPD. They could have a problem, though, and catching it in the beginning stages is crucial. -- Patty Loveless
A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. -- Alice Miller
We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New, but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. -- Henry David Thoreau
I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable. -- Lewis Clarke
When you break your pelvis, you can't do a whole lot. It took me about six weeks to be able to get out of bed. Anything you do that shakes your body is painful all over, so you can't cough, you can't sneeze, and going to the bathroom is impossible. -- Tony Hawk
Whooping cough is not a mild disease. Whooping cough, before the vaccination, could make you very, very sick. First of all, there was a chance you could die from it - small chance, not a big chance. You would be coughing and coughing. It wouldn't last for a few days, like a cold. -- Anthony Fauci
When my husband turned 40, I was obsessed. 'Has he had his medical checkup?' He needed to go to the doctor; he needed to go to the dentist. Any little cough, I was really on him. Then he turned 40, and I thought, 'Maybe that's why I've been so obsessed with his health!' -- Cate Blanchett
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in. -- Barry Marshall
Would you like a cough drop Dolores? -- J. K. Rowling
Love, and a cough, are not concealed. -- Ovid
I do not cough for my own amusement. -- Jane Austen
Does koala bear poop smell like cough drops? -- Tom Robbins
Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid! -- Olive Schreiner
It is said that love and a cough cannot be hid. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. -- William Goldman
A cough so robust that I tapped into two new seams of phlegm. -- Bill Bryson
We cough because we can't help it, but others do it on purpose. -- Mignon McLaughlin
True love is the best thing in the world, except for cough drops. -- William Goldman
Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room. -- Ray Bradbury
I'll smoke, I'll cough, I'll get the tumors, I'll die, deal? Thank you America. [salutes] -- Bill Hicks
Nevermind what you normally would do. Just cough up your goddam buck like everyone else. -- Lawrence Tierney
You evah hear of a magic screw?' I cough back a laugh. 'No. No, sir. -- Libba Bray
I would rather turn my head and cough than see any part of 'Patch Adams' again. -- Gene Siskel
It's not the COUGH that carries you OFF. . . . It's the COFFIN they carry you OFF IN. -- Steven Tyler
I auditioned for 'Cats' - I didn't sing but I was able to cough up a hairball. -- Stephanie Miller
We all laugh and cough with the same language and will die with the same language as well! -- Javad Alizadeh
You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough -- Wendell Berry
Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough... -- Action Bronson
A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you. -- Ogden Nash
Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.... -- Anne Sexton
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax - tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough. -- Pearl Williams
He laughed, tried to make it into a cough, inhaled at exactly the wrong moment, and then really did cough. -- Robin McKinley
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love. -- Anne Sexton
When a person dies, the earth is generally unwilling to cough him back up. A miracle contradicts the will of earth. -- Leif Enger
In the USA in 1978, they mandated vaccination and it resulted in a three fold increase in the reported incidence of whooping cough. -- Viera Scheibner
If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white walls- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945 -- Mervyn Peake
If you've had a cough that lasted weeks, a cough that just doesn't seem to go away, chances are it was pertussis. -- Paul A. Offit
My dog has a cough. If you've never seen a dog with a cough, I recommend trying to find one. It's hilarious. -- Zach Braff
It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all. -- P. G. Wodehouse
A cough is a symptom, not a disease. Take it to your doctor and he can give you something serious to worry about. -- Robert Morley
Fundamentalists never wonder why, if herpes is sent by "god" to scourge "adulterers," whooping cough and measles weren't purposely created to lambaste children -- Fred Woodworth
Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough. -- Oscar Wilde
Outlaws, like lovers, poets, and tubercular composers who cough blood onto piano keys, do their finest work in the slippery rays of the moon. -- Tom Robbins
The audience is the best judge of anything. They cannot be lied to. Truth brings them closer. A moment that lags - they're gonna cough -- Barbra Streisand
As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best. -- John Lancaster Spalding
My body is weird. I can't drink strong drinks. I can't even drink cough medicine - I used to cry when my mom forced me. I don't drink alcohol. -- Rahim Moore
There was a loud cough from the man on the stand. I replaced My Magic Mirror carefully on his tray, gave him a cheesy smile, and went my way. -- Jonathan Stroud
My childhood was full of deep sorrows - colic, whooping-cough, dread of ghosts, hell, Satan, and a Deity in the sky who was angry when I ate too much plumcake. -- George Eliot
What a doctor I've got - he's really mixed up. Last week, he grabbed my knee and told me to cough. Then hit me in the balls with a hammer. -- Rodney Dangerfield
It's not bad to cough. But cover your mouth when coughing. It's not bad to complain. But cover your mouth when complaining, else you'll spread infections of complains on us! -- Israelmore Ayivor
And so the merry party began. It was one of those jolly, happy, bread-crumbling parties where you cough twice before you speak, and then decide not to say it after all. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Up to 90% of the total decline in the death rate of children between 1860-1965 because of whooping cough, scarlet fever, diphtheria, and measles occurred before the introduction of immunisations and antibiotics. -- Archie Kalokerinos
With a rasping cough, the vampire shakes its head. "It was you who called us. All of you, with your war. The roar of your cannons shook us from our quiet graves... -- Mike Mignola
Expel the object!" Freak shouts. "Regurgitate, you big moron!" and he gives me another thump and I cough up this yucky mess, but I'm still laughing so hard my nose is running. -- Rodman Philbrick
When I was a child, there were not that many vaccines. I was vaccinated for polio. I actually got measles as a child. I got pertussis, whooping cough. I remember that very well. -- Anthony Fauci
Despite her cough, Rose was in unusually good spirits. That was irritating. If I'm to trade my life for Rose's, I'd appreciate her exhibiting a touch of melancholy. Also acceptable would be despair. -- Franny Billingsley
You listen to the audience. The audience is wrong individually and always right collectively. If they don't laugh, it isn't funny. If they cough, it isn't interesting. If they walk out, you are in trouble. -- Peter Stone

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