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In this metropolis a number of lurking leeches infamously gain subsistence by practicing on the credulity of women.

I think one possibility [in the future] might be chemotherapy. And I’m always hesitant to say that because it makes it sound like I’m against chemotherapy. Right now, chemotherapy is the best cancer treatment therapy we have. But let’s say we find some way where we can almost genetically engineer the DNA of our being and fight cancer that way. Then, the idea that we used to pump poison into people to fight off cancer will almost seem like the use of leeches or something.

It is possible to have a pretty good life and career being a leech and a parasite in the media world, gadding about from TV studio to TV studio, writing inconsequential pieces and having a good time.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon’s knife, she’s double-edged: sometimes she’ll cure, but sometimes she will kill.

The leech’s kiss, the squid’s embrace, The prurient ape’s defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much.

Leeches should be kept a day before applying them. They should be squeezed to make them eject the contents of their stomachs.

With fame, you can’t trust everybody. You can’t depend on them being there for you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got you as a person. They will only be there because of what you’ve got and what you can bring to their life. It’s not a relationship-it’s a leech.

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

A leech that will not quit the skin until sated with blood.

She just laughed in his face and told him she’d sooner crawl in a bed with his father’s leeches before she’d crawl in one with him. She stopped laughing when he put his knife in her.

There are no green thumbs or black thumbs. There are only gardeners and non-gardeners. Gardeners are the ones who ruin after ruin get on with the high defiance of nature herself, creating, in the very face of her chaos and tornado, the bower of roses and the pride of irises. It sounds very well to garden a ‘natural way’. You may see the natural way in any desert, any swamp, any leech-filled laurel hell. Defiance, on the other hand, is what makes gardeners.

If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would be free to drink tea in the mud!

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to leech us of our ill is daily spun, But there exists no loom to weave it into fabric.

Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches

The years leech at a man’s memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

Are we all just Dark Age doctors, swearing by our leeches? We crave a greater science. We want to be proven wrong.

I’m baptized by America and covered in leeches.

It’s millions of leeches from a primitive country come here to leech off you and, with it, they are ruining the schools, the hospitals, and a lot of life in America.

Footballers wives are like leeches, feeding off their partners success. I don’t want to be a footballer’s wife.

I don’t think most people associate me with leeches or how to get them off. But I know how to get them off. I’m an expert at it.

To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege – to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you can not even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap!

Too many bugs and leeches and spiders and spiderwebs. Please spray the wilderness to rid the area of these pests.

I want to be able to look at myself in the mirror and know I took everyone on.