The Four Horsemen whose Ride presages the end of the world are known to be Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence. But even less significant events have their own Horsemen. For example, the Four Horsemen of the Common Cold are Sniffles, Chesty, Nostril, and Lack of Tissues; the Four Horsemen whose appearance foreshadows any public holiday are Storm, Gales, Sleet, and Contra-flow. Votes: 5
That common cold of the male psyche, fear of commitment. Votes: 4
The only way to treat the common cold is with contempt. Votes: 4
Pressure and stress is the common cold of the psyche Votes: 3
both doubt and certainty are as contagious as the common cold Votes: 3
This is an industry that doesn't have the common cold... It has cholera. Votes: 3
Successful salesman: someone who has found a cure for the common cold shoulder. Votes: 3
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. Votes: 3
Medicinal discovery, It moves in mighty leaps, It leapt straight past the common cold And gave it us for keeps. Votes: 3
Saying 'Gesundheit' doesn't really help the common cold - but its about as good as anything the doctors have come up with. Votes: 3
The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold. Votes: 3
I think a lot of people see the flu as a common cold, but it's not: it's a serious respiratory illness that could lead to hospitalization and the young are extremely vulnerable. Votes: 3
Movie failures are like the common cold. You can stay in bed and take aspirin for six days and recover. Or you can walk around and ignore it for six days and recover. Votes: 3
If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going. Votes: 3
Depression has been called the worlds number one public health problem. In fact, depression is so widespread it is considered the common cold of psychiatric disturbances. But there is a grim difference between depression and a cold. Depression can kill you. Votes: 3
The sheer quantity of brain power that hurled itself voluntarily and quixotically into the search for new baseball knowledge was either exhilarating or depressing, depending on how you felt about baseball. The same intellectual resources might have cured the common cold, or put a man on Pluto. Votes: 3
Baclli swarm within my portalsSuch as ne'r conceived by mortals,But, bred by scientists,Wise and hoary in some Olympian laboratory.Bacteria as large as miceWith feet of fire and heads of ice,Who never interrupt for slumberTheir stomping, elephantine rumba.( From the poem--- " The Common Cold " )" Votes: 3
Happiness in a tablet. This is our world. Prozac. Daxil. Xanax. Billions are spent to advertise such drugs. And billions are spent purchasing them. You don't even need a specific trauma, just 'general depression' is enough, or anxiety, as if sadness is as treatable as the common cold. Votes: 3
I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong? Votes: 3
A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold. Votes: 0
Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up. Votes: 4 Morgan Freeman
Common sense is not so common. Votes: 7 Voltaire