albuminurophobia: An excessive fear of albumin in one's urine as a sign of kidney disease. Some people fear that they have kidney disease when their urinary habits change or if they have vague pains in their abdomen or back. Others worry that they are urinating too much, and some worry that they are not urinating enough.
alcoholomania: Alcoholism; an excessive desire to drink alcoholic beverages.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink,
then the drink takes you.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896-1940) U.S. novelist
alcoholophobia: An extreme hatred and fear of alcoholism.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should
be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
-Ann Landers
O God! that men should put an enemy
in their mouths to steal away their brains.
-Cassio, in Othello by William Shakespeare
(1564-1616)
Drunkeness is nothing but voluntary madness.
-Seneca (c. A.D. 5-65) Roman writer,
philosopher, statesman
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alektoromania: An abnormal desire to have multitudes of chickens to breed and to collect.
alektorophobia: An abnormal fear of chickens which may be a result of the fear of feathers, of winged creatures, or of flying animals or birds. Such fears may also include eggs and live or dead chickens. A few reasons include fears of being pecked, swooped upon, and because they roost above eye level or that they eat food from the ground or manure piles which apparently may contaminate the bird. Such fears usually involve relative closeness to live chickens, but usually don't include cooked chickens.
I did not become a vegetarian for my health.
I did it for the health of the chickens.
-Isaac Bashevis Singer
alethophobia: An abnormal fear of the truth.
algophobia: An excessive fear of pain. Mankind has suffered and feared pain since the beginning of time. Although a wide variety of drugs are now available to ease pain, it is still a fearful topic, and the prospect of having pain makes many people extremely anxious; especially, when they can not explain its cause to their doctor or to others around them.
alkaline soils (plants): basiphobia, basophobia
alliumphobia: An abnormal fear of garlic that may extend to a variety of plants characterized by their pungent odors, including onions, leeks, chives, and shallots.
allodoxaphobia: An intensive fear or hatred of receiving the opinions of others. This phobia may relate to hearing or learning what others think of a person. Such an anxiety is often related to a fear of criticism or ridicule when one attempts various projects.
alone; aloneness: agromania, autophobia, cremophobia, eremiomania, eremiophobia, eremophobia, monophobia
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely;
in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.
-Geoffrey Francis Fisher
alopeciaphobia: A fear of baldness or of going bald.
altophobia: (preferred usage is acrophobia): An abnormal or excessive fear of heights.
alychiphobia: An excessive fear of failure.
I think knowing what you can not do is more
important than knowing what you can do.
-Lucille Ball
If a man does not keep pace with his companions,
perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
Let him step to the music which he hears,
however measured or far away.
-Henry David Thoreau
We promise according to our hopes,
and perform according to our fears.
-La Rochefoucauld
He was a self-made man who owed
his lack of success to nobody.
-Joseph Heller
amathophobia: An excessive fear of dust. Some phobics who fear contamination and germs also include dust as part of their anxieties. A few of those who fear dust keep the windows in their homes closed at all times and install elaborate air-filtering equipment. There are some people who constantly wipe surfaces and clean their living quarters so often that they may be considered to have a mental problem called an "obsessive-compulsive disorder".
Because personal hygiene is a
means to control infectious diseases, the absence
of dirt is not merely an esthetic adornment.
Cleanliness is doubtless an acquired taste.
-Jay Stuller "Cleanliness has only recently
become a virtue," Smithsonian, February, 1991.
Fear makes fools of two kinds of men:
the one who is afraid of nothing,
and the other who is afraid of everything.
-Anonymous
