If leeches ate peaches instead of my blood, then I would…

If only mosquitoes sucked fat instead of blood.

— Zhat

“If I had chlorophyll instead of blood, I’d have ivy in my IV (not Roman numeral four).”

— Jarod Kintz

If I sat back and decided to sell the product of my father and my grandfather's work, like a leech, you know I wouldn't…

— James Packer

“...man is as much a parasite on the cow as the tapeworm is on man: We have sucked their udders like leeches. "Man the…

— Unbearable Lightness of Being

Politicians are leeches, mostly.

— Tibor R. Machan

“Some people do just enough to keep you around because they are AFRAID to know what life would be like without you”

— O. S. Hickman

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

— Margaret Thatcher

Sorry. I dont have any leeches on my speed dial.

— Jacob Black

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

— Avicenna

The poor have often been subversive just because they don't always believe their own depiction as brutes and loafers and leeches, and new economy…

— Rebecca Solnit

I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that…

— Dave Sim

Upon this gifted age, in its dark hour falls from the sky a meteoric shower of facts; They lie unquestioned, uncombined. Wisdom enough to…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking…

— Connie Willis

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

— Aldous Huxley

“Dave had warned us that not only do leeches crawl up your boots and find their way into your warm body parts they make…

— Tracy Johnston