(32 quotes found)
“Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it. Let's do it, let's fall in love.”
Cole Porter
“You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.'”
William Tecumseh Sherman
“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”
Jonathan Swift
“Ambition and fleas both jump high”
German Proverb
“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
“One does not burn a blanket to get rid of a flea.”
Turkish Proverb
“The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can”
John Donne
“A reasonable amount o fleas is good for a dog - keeps him from brooding over being a dog, maybe.”
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
“Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a congressman can”
Mark Twain
