Fleas Quotations

When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will leave you alone.

I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment.

The better a work is, the more it attracts criticism; it is like the fleas who rush to jump on white linens.

When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.

My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying.

I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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?

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

On Monday morning, one or two teachers in the portable came in and they noticed fleas jumping up off the carpet as they walked in. They were on the outside (mats) as they walked into the door.

It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.

Most fresh-water fish eat water fleas at some point in their lives. They are an important food source for fish.

On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality.

I even worry about reflective flea collars. Oh, sure, drivers can see them glow in the dark, but so can the fleas.

It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns.

Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice.

I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.

Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

Fleas actually like warm weather. I don't know that in the summer we'll see a reduction.

This is prime allergy season for dogs. Seasonal allergies are starting, but it's also flea allergy time. This is perfect flea season because we had a mild winter and the fleas didn't die off.

A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.

He wore sweatpants and a T-shirt and had stopped in the middle of the hall, furiously scratching one bare forearm. "Fleas?" I said.

History will die if not irritated. The only service I can do to my profession is to serve as a flea.

If you go long enough without a bath, even the fleas will let you alone.

I don't trust happiness. I turn it over as if it were a glass at a flea market or a rug at a souk, looking for chipped rims or loose threads.

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

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

You cannot flea a stone.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

Keep your paws off my fiancèe, you flea-ridden stray!

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

I'm on the verge of a total breakdown. Sciatica. Taxes. Cars. Fleas, possibly. It's an absurd existence.

I literally in the New York flea market - just when I was despairing of ever having a great serendipitous find - found a 1926 Chanel.

The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.

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.

I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.

A blind, anemic, weak-kneed flea on crutches would have a greater chance of defeating a herd of a thousand wild stampeding elephants, than the enemy has of defeating God.

That was the thing about guys, though: Sometimes, they had the emotional depth of a flea.

Sleep with a dog and rise full of fleas.

Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

A man who attempts to read all the new productions must do as the flea does,--skip.

That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

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.

Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can

So, naturalists observe, a flea - Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em; And so proceed ad infinitum

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.

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

Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

It's a good thing for a dog to have fleas; keeps his mind off being a dog.

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.

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.

Lawyers are fleas on the hide of human nature.

Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.