Sucking Lice

Famous quotes containing the words sucking and/or lice:

“I can hear, underground, that sucking and sobbing,
In my veins, in my bones I feel it,—
The small waters seeping upward,
The tight grains parting at last.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“He who has many lice doesn’t scratch; he who has many debts doesn’t worry.”
—Chinese proverb.