Quotes of Flea - somelinesforyou

“ The Boys and the Frogs Some boys, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones. They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us. ”

- Aesop

“ The Frogs Asking for a King The Frogs, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King. Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake. The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid themselves in the depths of the pool… ”

- Aesop

“ The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea. ”

- John Adams

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

- William Shakespeare

“ To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it. ”

- Herman Melville

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

- H. L. Mencken

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

- Peter Nivio Zarlenga

“ He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas. ”

- George Herbert

“ A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted — the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ I do honour the very flea of his dog. ”

- Ben Jonson

“ Panurge had a flea in his ear. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living. ”

- Theophile Gautier

“ A man thinks he amounts to a great deal, but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat. ”

- Don Marquis

“ Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody. ”

- Stanislaw J. Lec

“ Politicians are interested in people. Not that this is a virtue. Fleas are interested in dogs. ”

- Gandhi

“ We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. ”

- Etty Hillesum

“ Haste is good only in catching fleas. ”

- Alla Yaroshinskaya

“ Well-washed and well-combed domestic pets grow dull; they miss the stimulus of fleas. ”

- Francis Galton

“ Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, yet he makes gods by the dozens. ”

- Michel de Montaigne

“ A reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog — keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe. ”

- Edward Noyes Westcott

“ Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas. ”

- Thomas Fuller

“ Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can. ”

- Mark Twain

“ He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas. ”

- Unknown

“ Life would be a perpetual flea hunt if a man were obliged to run down all the innuendoes, inveracities, and insinuations and misrepresentations which are uttered against him. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens. ”

- Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
  • 1