Fleas Quotes

“Nay, it ain't got fleas, and 'tis a girl.”
― Cecilia Dart-Thornton, The Ill-Made Mute

“It was the first time he'd persuaded a girl into bed by mentioning the possibility of fleas.”
― Karen Chance, Masks

“Pur non potendo fornire cifre precise al riguardo, possiamo affermare che nel 1347 c’erano in Europa occidentale molti più ratti e più pulci di quanto comunemente si crede.”
― Carlo M. Cipolla, Allegro ma non troppo. Con Le leggi fondamentali della stupidità umana

“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, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“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, Alcools

“No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
― Herman Melville

“O most wondrous misshapen biddy of the m'rning, humming at which hour t shouldst cluck! Thou dost not harbour honesty any m're than a hedgehog is a splint'r'd prison f'r fleas.”
― Stewart Stafford

“I am redefining the field of altitude sickness.”
― Steven Magee

“Itchy ‘Altitude Fleas’ was the most unpleasant experience I had when I was characterizing Altitude Hypersensitivity!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“Truckers that drive all over the USA are often in hypoxic environments!”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“A flea makes an elephant out of a fly.”
― Tamerlan Kuzgov

“And he said...

...when fleas jump ship, be careful of where the birds nest.”
― Anthony T. Hincks

“All across the perfect crust of sparkling white snow were little fleas, hopping and jumping across ice crystals. I sank down on my knees into the snowbank and held my eyes at the surface of the snow. The fleas popped and hopped like carbonated bubbles across the surface of a coke.”
― Florence Virginia Stephenson, Flour & Salt: A novel

“Sometimes those fleas get to a woman," he told her as his hand warmed her flesh. "She gets an itch that nobody but a man can scratch”
― Pamela Morsi, Garters

“On the tray were two plates of a yellowish curry.
"Today's menu is shirobanba. Monday is shirobanba day."
"Curry always perks me up."
Minami nodded.
"What do you mean by shirobanba?" Otoha asked.
"You don't know?" Kinoshita asked. "You haven't read it? It's from Yasushi Inoue's novel Shirobanba. It's a re-creation of the curry an old woman in the story cooks. Shirobanba, by the way, are the so-called snow bugs, teeny tiny insects that have a white puff on their wings that looks like cotton. They look like little flakes of snow.”
― Hika Harada, Dinner at the Night Library