diff --git a/docs/curl.1 b/docs/curl.1
index 019fcc386..8fad33f0e 100644
--- a/docs/curl.1
+++ b/docs/curl.1
@@ -608,7 +608,7 @@ directory.
 
 A quick and very simple example of how to setup a \fI.netrc\fP to allow curl
 to ftp to the machine host.domain.com with user name \&'myself' and password
-'secret' should look similar to:
+\&'secret' should look similar to:
 
 .B "machine host.domain.com login myself password secret"
 
@@ -1180,7 +1180,7 @@ Sets proxy server to use for GOPHER.
 Sets proxy server to use if no protocol-specific proxy is set.
 .IP "NO_PROXY <comma-separated list of hosts>"
 list of host names that shouldn't go through any proxy. If set to a asterisk
-'*' only, it matches all hosts.
+\&'*' only, it matches all hosts.
 .SH EXIT CODES
 There exists a bunch of different error codes and their corresponding error
 messages that may appear during bad conditions. At the time of this writing,