Guinea Worm Disease

Famous quotes containing the words guinea, worm and/or disease:

    “To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.”
    —William Blake (1757–1827)

    “From pleasure of the bed,
    Dull as a worm,
    His rod and its butting head
    Limp as a worm ...”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “His poor self,
    A dedicated beggar to the air,
    With his disease of all-shunned poverty,
    Walks, like contempt, alone.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)