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
That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. — William Shakespeare
On the neck of a giraffe a flea begins to believe in immortality. — Bill Vaughan
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. — Jean Harlow
Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores. — Arthur Chapman
The fly is small, but it is big enough to make one sick. — Turkish Proverbs
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. — Ambrose Bierce
But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Even the lion protects himself against flies. — African Proverbs
If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try spending the night with a mosquito. — African Proverbs
The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it’s taller than the buffalo. — Filipino Proverbs
I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea. — Si Robertson
Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love. — Cole Porter
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can. — John Donne
When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. — Ursula Andress
Those that lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. — American Indian Proverbs
I actually picked up copies of Decline I and II at a flea market once. I walked out without paying. — Penelope Spheeris
Flea Market Quotes
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles. — Neil Innes
It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. — Zooey Deschanel
My mother used to take me to flea markets in my stroller, and I would just rummage through the piles. You've got to dig through the overstuffed racks that everyone else just walks by. It's the only way to find the cool stuff. — Lily Collins
I always like my trailer or hotel room to have fresh flowers or pillows I find at a local flea market - anything to personalize the environment. — Chloe Sevigny
I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays. — Zoe Kravitz
I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet. — Candice Swanepoel
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special. — Kelly Wearstler
I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them. — Iris Apfel
My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market. — Amy Sedaris
I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism. — Ransom Riggs
Flea Markets Quotes
I'm never sloppy, and I never wear jeans. I don't work one look in particular, but it's usually retro - I'm a flea-market freak. And detailed - I'm always very done, even at the gym. — Sayings
I went to the flea market in the morning and charged tourists money to take pictures of me. I looked pretty wild, with hair down to my waist, Indian robes, a floor-length fur coat. There must be lots of photos of me out there. — Wolfgang Beltracchi
When I find something at a flea market or an antique store, it feels more special and I'm more inclined to want to wear it. — Erin Wasson
It doesn't matter to criminals if the event is called a gun show or a flea market -- if they can buy guns. — Janet Reno
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea. — Samuel Johnson
You never know when you're going to get an opportunity. — Dwight Henry
I was going to the flea markets to buy furniture. It was getting done the way it was getting done - on a small scale and with a lot of soul and heart and risk. We did fashion like fashion was done before - spontaneously, with joy and freedom, and that's what created our identity. — Ines de La Fressange
There were some initial instruments I had when I was young and made some trade-offs. Maybe a guitar I bought in a flea market. They weren't the greatest guitar but they would be cool to still have them. Other than that, not as a professional. — John Petrucci
Beauty is startling. She wears a gold shawl in the summer and sells seven kinds of honey at the flea market. She is young and old at once, my daughter and my grandmother. In school she excelled in mathematics and poetry. . . Beauty will dance with anyone who is brave enough to ask her. — J. Ruth Gendler
Flea-Market vendors are frozen mid-haggle. Middle-aged women are frozen in the middle of their lives. The gavels of frozen judges are frozen between guilt and innocence. On the ground are the crystals of the frozen first breaths of babies, and those of the last gasps of the dying. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Flee Quotes
Flee the country where a lone man holds all power: It is a nation of slaves. — Simon Bolivar
Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow. — Proverbs
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it. — Jeff Cooper
Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent. — Anthony of Padua
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. — Konstantin Stanislavisky
Unless the theatre can ennoble you, make you a better person, you should flee from it. — Constantin Stanislavski
My dear soul, flee from the worthless, stay close only to those with a pure heart. Like attracts like. A crow will lead you to the graveyard, a parrot to a lump of sugar. — Rumi
Don't you complicate your mind
Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. — Bob Marley
In countries where people have to flee their homes because of persecution and violence, political solutions must be found, peace and tolerance restored, so that refugees can return home. In my experience, going home is the deepest wish of most refugees. — Angelina Jolie
When you have your own people fleeing their homes it's not because they found a job somewhere else... then you have something to fix in your country. — Nayib Bukele
The kid makes you sick. He looks the part, he walks the part, he is the part. He's six-foot something, fit as a flea, good-looking - he's got to have something wrong with him....Hopefully he's hung like a hamster! That would make us all feel better! — Cristiano Ronaldo
We are so addicted, either to materialism or to transcending material reality, that we don’t see God right in front of us, in the beggar, the starving child, the brokenhearted woman; in our friend; in the cat; in the flea. We miss it, and in missing it, we allow the world to be destroyed. — Andrew Harvey
But however secure and well-regulated civilized life may become, bacteria, Protozoa, viruses, infected fleas, lice, ticks, mosquitoes, and bedbugs will always lurk in the shadows ready to pounce when neglect, poverty, famine, or war lets down the defenses. — Hans Zinsser
Large organizations cannot be versatile. A large organization is effective through its mass rather than through its agility. Fleas can jump many times their own height, but not an elephant. — Peter Drucker
We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fleas and ticks and infections. So why are we so miserable? — Steven Pinker
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
I have a real low tolerance for parasites, and you're so close to the limit that I'm already reaching for the flea powder. — Linda Howard
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
Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes. — Earl Weaver
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze. — Dr. Seuss
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas. — Italian Proverbs
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
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time. — Nate Berkus
Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog. — Robert Fulghum
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion. — William Tecumseh Sherman
Win and you are the superior being in all the universe; lose, and may the fleas of a million rodents, infect your every orifice. — David Feherty
Crooks aren't the worst people, just the stupidest. The fleas of the world. — Orson Welles
Morgellons is constantly morphing. There are times when it's directly attacking the nervous system, as if you're being bitten by fleas and lice. It's all in the tissue and it's not a hallucination. It was eating me alive, sucking the juices out. I've been sick all my life. — Joni Mitchell
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