I wouldn't hurt a flea. I'd finger a spider though.
Plant consciousness, insect consciousness, fish consciousness, all are related by one permanent element, which we may call the religious element inherent in all life, even in a flea: the sense of wonder. That is our sixth sense, and it is the natural religious sense.
Flea and Anthony are into funk, like old school Meters and stuff like that.
I do honor the very flea of his dog.
I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.
Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.
To be born, to live and to die is merely to change forms. . . And what does one form matter any more than another?. . . Each form has its own sort of happiness and unhappiness. From the elephant down to the flea. . . from the flea down to the sensitive and living molecule which is the origin of all, there is not a speck in the whole of nature that does not feel pain or pleasure.
But we used to go to flea markets and things, and look for old 78 records that had silly song titles.
At a flea market I always head for the junk jewelry table first.
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.
A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!
Sir, there is no settling the point of precedency between a louse and a flea.
I cannot raise my worth too high; Of what vast consequence am I! "Not of the importance you suppose," Replies a Flea upon his nose; "Be humble, learn thyself to scan; Know, pride was never made for man.
You may as well say, 'That's a valiant flea that dare eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
The world we inhabit is abundant beyond our wildest imagination. There are trees, dreams, sunrises; there are thunderstorms, shadows, rivers; there are wars, flea bites, love affairs; there are the lives of people, Gods, entire galaxies. The simplest human action varies from one person and occasion to the next-how else would we recognize our friends only from their gait, posture, voice, and divine their changing moods? Only a tiny fraction of this abundance affects our minds. This is a blessing, not a drawback. A superconscious organism would not be superwise, it would be paralyzed.
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.
Anything an artist does is to show ourselves as we really are, which is a complex thing. I don't think that one work of Philosophy or Art, or Letters, or Acting, or Middle Playing, or Tightrope Walking, or Flea Circuses has made mankind better, if by better you mean kinder, wiser, more tolerant of each other. One thing self knowledge. Knoticayton: know thyself.
I love vintage shopping in flea markets, vintage stores and even Ebay.
You cannot flea a stone.
