Fleas quotes
58 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"I don't intend to be a performing flea any more. I was the dreamweaver, but although I'll be around I don't intend to be running at 20,000 miles an hour trying to prove myself. I don't want to die at 40."
"The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can."
"Sensitivity isn't about being wimpy. It's about being so painfully aware that a flea landing on a dog is like a sonic boom"
"Oh, why can't we break away from all this, just you and I, and lodge with my fleas in the hills? I mean flee to my lodge in the hills."
"But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?"
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"The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens."
"History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea."
"Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that."
"Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can."
"It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog."
"So, naturalists observe, a flea; Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum."
"Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea."
"Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature."
"You cannot flea a stone."
"My father and I did work for a while at the flea market and there really are rows of Afghans working there, some of whom I am related to."
"I've withdrawn many times. Part of me is a monk, and part a performing flea! The fear in the music business is that you don't exist if you're not at Xenon with Andy Warhol."
"Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!"
