#fleas

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

— Jean Harlow

#down #fleas #get #lie #up

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

— Gustave Flaubert

#better #criticism #fleas #jump #like

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

— Stanislaw Lec

#everybody #fleas #jump #like #man

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

— H. L. Mencken

#fleas #must #professor #theory

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

#fleas #funny #humor #humour #pass-the-fleas-please

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

— Ernie Pyle

#bath #enough #even #fleas #go

La Puce Puces, amis, amantes même, Qu'ils sont cruels ceux qui nous aiment! Tout notre sang coule pour eux. Les bien-aimés sont malheureux. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#love #poems #love

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

#biggest #biting #committed #dog #enough

But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#ever #fleas #his #praised