Leper Quotes

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.

Being thrown out of this place is significantly better than being thrown out of a leper colony.

Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter.

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.