Top 100 Quotes About Fleas
#1. You know, sometimes I envy you. It must be nice to be a wolf. Just for a while." "It has its drawbacks." Like fleas, she thought, as they locked up the museum. And the food. And the constant nagging feeling that you should be wearing three bras at once.
Terry Pratchett
#2. Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.
Sarah Kane
#3. Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say, 'This word shall bear this meaning,' and see if they can get it across. It is a sporting game, which all can play, only all cannot win.
Rose Macaulay
#4. A nation has honor precisely as it has fleas
on this or that body. The statesman who talks of honor
unless he means something else, quite different
is a rogue ...
Storm Jameson
#5. A culture cannot lie down with dogs and not become utterly infested with fleas. The dogs, in this case, are the mongrel media and the corporate overlords who have grown fat on manufactured controversy and fear mongering.
Steven Weber
#6. It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.
Mark Twain
#7. 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
Groucho Marx
#8. Sending armies to McClellan is like shoveling fleas across a barnyard, not half of them get there.
Abraham Lincoln
#9. Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas.
One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.
Benjamin Franklin
#10. Finally, Charlie gave up the hunt and placed (the puppy) back on the floor, dispatching fleas was not his idea of a romantic evening, unless you happened to be a twisted exterminator, he thought.
E.A. Bucchianeri
#11. It doesn't follow that a nasty habit of mind is any less nasty because it's ancestral. It doesn't follow you can't cure it. Why scratch fleas for ever? Gambling, speculation, is a social disease. It's as natural and desirable as -- syphilis...
H.G.Wells
#12. Fine! Do whatever you want. And when you get fleas, don't come complaining to me.
Shelly Laurenston
#13. Governance is complex, difficult, and on the whole, thankless - why ever should the Bright Young Things leave the management of their hotels, newspapers, banks, TV channels and corporations to join, like fleas on a behemoth, the government? Wherein lies the difference between the two worlds?
Upamanyu Chatterjee
#14. A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H.L. Mencken
#16. And sank into the profound slumber which comes only to such
fortunate folk as are troubled neither with mosquitoes nor fleas nor excessive activity of brain.
Nikolai Gogol
#17. Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas.
Francis Galton
#18. The only thing holding you back is you. Commit to developing the mindset of a winner, set your goals and chase them down. Remember, a dog in the hunt ain't got no fleas!
Andy Albright
#19. He seems to be attracting religions the way a dog attracts fleas.
Yann Martel
#20. You easy-living boys had better get set, they said. There's johnnies out there thicker than fleas on a billy goat in a barnlot
Shelby Foote
#21. But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses.
Hans Zinsser
#22. Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.
Dr. Seuss
#23. Nature exists for man no more than she does for monkeys, and is as regardless of his life or pleasure or success as she is of the fleas. Her waves will drown him, her fire burn him, and her earth devour him, her storms and lightning smite him, as if he were only a dog.
John Burroughs
#24. Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.
Walter Savage Landor
#26. Politicians are always interested in people. Not that this is always a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs.
P. J. O'Rourke
#28. Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say something about bad poets who made a living by parasitizing him, wrote the splendid line, 'was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
Richard Dawkins
#29. Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum, And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on, While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
Augustus De Morgan
#31. So often we think we have got to make a difference and be a big dog. Let us just try to be little fleas biting. Enough fleas biting strategically can make a big dog very uncomfortable.
Marian Wright Edelman
#32. We're trivial pissants in the big scheme of things, fleas, fly shit in the pepper.
C.J. Box
#33. Then they decided that the fleas that lived on Siamese cats would probably be more intelligent than the fleas that lived on just ordinary alley cats. It only made sense that drinking intelligent blood would make intelligent fleas.
Richard Brautigan
#35. Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#36. Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.
Cole Porter
#37. The Earth is an animal that shakes off its fleas when they dig too deep, bite too hard. It shifts and our cities fall; it sighs and the coasts are overtaken.
Dave Eggers
#38. You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas
Ken Follett
#39. Henry,that's how you get rid of fleas. You keep them from laying eggs. You go to war with them.
Jason Jack Miller
#40. The Americans' clothes were meanwhile passing through poison gas. Body lice and bacteria and fleas were dying by the billions. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
#41. It was the first time he'd persuaded a girl into bed by mentioning the possibility of fleas.
Karen Chance
#42. The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.
Gustave Flaubert
#43. May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
Keisha Keenleyside
#44. Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs - and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
Walt Disney
#45. Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant.
Peter Drucker
#46. All she's caught is fleas! She's a medicine cat, not a warrior. She should be helping me, not trying to pretend that her entire history vanished on the day the truth came out.
Erin Hunter
#47. Shall I compare thee to a really large rat? Thou art more longer, with less disease. One would never mistake you for a listless cat . . . Nor a filthy dog, because my dog has fleas.
Cynthia Hand
#48. Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.
Stephen King
#49. I bet in the All-Time History of Dating no girl has ever told a boy who has just asked her out that she has fleas-and then farted!
Zoe Sugg
#50. A reasonable amount of fleas is good for a dog; it keeps him from brooding over being a dog.
Edward Noyes Westcott
#53. Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life.
Joni Mitchell
#54. How many do you think there are?" Stefan whispered.
"More than the fleas in my bed," Oakes answered.
Stefan glared at him. "I've been sleeping in your bed!" he hissed.
Jack Lewis Baillot
#55. Honey, Don't go shooting all the dogs 'cause one of them's got fleas
Paul Newman
#56. Coils within coils," murmured the cat. "Fleas upon fleas, idiots begetting idiots - "
"What?"
"Mmm, just thinking," whispered Mogget. "You should try it sometimes.
Garth Nix
#57. Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.
David Feherty
#58. Adam has angels like a dog has fleas. He came here with them, and the more time you spend around him, the more likely you are to get them yourself.
Martha N. Beck
#59. 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.
Jonathan Swift
#60. Wally, stop playing with your beans."
Mom is participating in a nightly ritual that never changes. Tonight, The Turd's picking up lima beans, sniffing each one, and burying it in his mashed potatoes.
"I'm not playing with them," he says, matter-of-factly. "I'm checking them for fleas.
Huston Piner
#61. We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.
Etty Hillesum
#62. But, Henry, this is wicked!' But, Adam, the world is wicked. Maoris prey on Moriori, Whites prey on darker-hued cousins, fleas prey on mice, cats prey on rats, Christians on infidels, first mates on cabin boys, Death on the Living. 'The weak are meat, the strong do eat.
David Mitchell
#65. Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.
Robert Fulghum
#66. Dogs have fleas; people have each other. We are born to die. Life is a continuing tragic comedy. Everything and everyone we love suffers. Anybody who doesn't see that has not grown up and known life.
Frederick Lenz
#67. [A lesser light asked Ummon Are there multiple futures Ummon answered Does a dog have fleas]
Dan Simmons
#68. Fine writers should split hairs together, and sit side by side, like friendly apes, to pick the fleas from each others fur.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#69. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.
Mark Twain
#70. If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.
Ernie Pyle
#71. I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.
Jonathan Ames
#72. We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable?
Steven Pinker
#73. The general order of things that takes care of fleas and moles also takes care of men, if they will have the same patience that fleas and moles have, to leave it to itself.
Michel De Montaigne
#74. He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.
Kelley Armstrong
#75. Do all of you think we have fleas?" Decebel asked as he looked at Jen and Sally.
"I think we just make an assumption because of the hair and what not, that you, ya know, might have a problem with the little buggers when you in your wolf form.
Quinn Loftis
#76. And so fleas look up at the sky and wonder why stars.
Marisha Pessl
#77. One day you're the leader of Iraq, the next day you're being checked for fleas on FOX News.
David Letterman
#78. My grandmother say you lay down with dogs you get up with fleas. A hard head makes a soft behind. Life is like a box of chocolates you never know what you're going to get.
Cupcake Brown
#79. Why must every relationship I have be so damned impossible? (Ravyn)
Hey now, defeatist talk from a catman like you? I'm the one who should be freaking out here. I mean, damn, you could give me fleas or something. (Susan)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#81. When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.
Stefanie Schneider
#82. fleas are like a bad habit - awfully hard to get rid of once you get them
Haruki Murakami
#83. Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.
Mark Twain
#84. Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.
William R. Polk
#85. You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
Marian Wright Edelman
#86. I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.
Jane Wagner
#87. Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.
George Harrison
#88. When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Jean Harlow
#89. ****your Parliament and your Constitution. America is an elephant. Cyprus is a flea. Greece is a flea. If those two fleas continue itching the elephant, they may just get whacked by the elephant's trunk, whacked good. President Lyndon Johnson to the Greek ambassador in Washington (1964)
Richard Clogg
#90. Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#91. Talking with this girl is like trying to catch fleas, you never know which way she was going to jump.
Ruth Downie
#92. Only a flea of hope.. 'But fleas ain't easy to rid' -Meronym
David Mitchell
#93. Standing before him, the blight of idyllic thought and aspiration--rotting souls reproducing like fleas.
Glen R. Krisch
#94. A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,
skip.
Samuel Rogers
#95. Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
Samuel Johnson
#96. History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.
Henry Adams
#97. I used to feel like I was a flea on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. Now I feel I might be a small yapping poodle on the back of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
Phil Zimmermann
#98. The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
John Donne
#99. If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
Sean O'Casey
#100. There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional.
John Petrucci
