Fleas Quotes - Page 2

• Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.

  Barbara Wood

  Forgiveness, Summer, Dog

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• My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea market.

  Amy Sedaris

  Stories, Favorites Things, My Favorite

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• I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.

  Zoe Kravitz

  Sunday, Gals, Flea Markets

  "Tribeca Film Festival Cast Interview: Beware! The Gonzo". Interview with Caitlin Colford, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 24, 2010.

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• Fleas can be taught nearly anything a congressman can.

  Mark Twain

  Politics, Taught, Congress

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• Non-crazy gun advocates - the ones who aren't stockpiling in preparation for a zombie invasion - don't like the idea of expanding background checks because they think it'll be a lot more paperwork. And it probably would make it more difficult to sell guns at, say, a flea market.

  Gail Collins

  Crazy, Gun, Thinking

  "Guns, Guns, Guns". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. April 3, 2013.

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• 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

  Mother, Stuff, Way

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• 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

  Clothes, Addiction, Dresses

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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

  Fashion, New York, Years

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• 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

  Flower, Rooms, Environment

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• We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.

  Etty Hillesum

  Fighting, Lakes, Worry

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• Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ordinary, Giants, Body

  'Imaginary Conversations' (1824) 'Southey and Porson'

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• 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

  Tree, Three, Cheese

  Song: Fox In Socks

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

  Gustave Flaubert

  White, Criticism, Linen

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• 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

  Children, Cat, Reality

  "The Ordinary Decency Of The Heart". Interview with Andrew Lawler, www.thesunmagazine.org. May 2008.

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• You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Breakfast, Lions, May

  "Henry V". Book by William Shakespeare, Orleans, scene vii, 1599.

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• I sting like a butterfly and punch like a flea.

  Si Robertson

  Butterfly, Dynasty, Like A Butterfly

  Si Robertson (2014). “Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty’s Favorite Uncle”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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• Haste is good only in catching fleas.

  Alla Yaroshinskaya

  Wisdom, Haste, Catching

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• To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.

  Herman Melville

  Book, Writing, Produce

  Moby Dick ch. 104 (1851)

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• Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Gnats, Criminals, Thieves

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• I am a dog that loves my fleas.

  Uncle Kracker

  Dog

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• Birds do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it; let's do it, let's fall in love.

  Cole Porter

  Love, Fall, Bird

  "Let's Do It" (song) (1954). These words were added to the original 1928 song, replacing lines including "Chinks do it, Japs do it" because Porter realized that those lyrics were offensive.

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• At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.

  Ethel Merman

  Junk, Tables, Firsts

  Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group

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• 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

  Special, Antiques, Want

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• I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!

  Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.

  Home, Giving, Lazy

  FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”

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• 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

  Elephants, Organization, Agility

  Peter Drucker (2017). “The Age of Discontinuity: Guidelines to Our Changing Society”, p.186, Routledge

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