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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Fleas'

8 entries

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, American Activist (1939- )

Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs.

Federico Fellini, Italian Director (1920-1993)

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

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist (1821-1880)

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

Jean Harlow, American Actress (1911-1937)

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

Stanislaw Lec, Polish Poet (1909-1996)

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

H. L. Mencken, American Writer (1880-1956)

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

Ernie Pyle, American Journalist (1900-1945)

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet (1865-1939)

8 entries