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.