Blood Quote by Dave Sim

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

— Horace

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

— Avicenna

A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to…

— Ambrose Bierce

“I raised the hand to my head and felt the slick skin of a leech. The creature, whose weight I had mistaken for water,…

— Brad Magnarella

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…

— Nancy Reagan

“seen Sitterson knew what was happening: in the mechanism older than Man, a small metal hammer struck a glass vial, cracking it from top…

— Tim Lebbon

“As the prisoners saw Lucy, they reached their hands out piteously to her, some begging her for food, others merely mouthing their pain, not…

— Susanna Calkins

“One of the most common uses of early stone tools was to crack open bones in order to get to the marrow. Some researchers…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Returning from a hunting trip, Orde-Lees, traveling on skis across the rotting surface of the ice, had just about reached camp when an evil,…

— Alfred Lansing

“A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk’s bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of…

— Plutarch

“Now, boys, you won't see this operation performed very often and there's a reason for that... You see it has absolutely no medical value.…

— William S. Burroughs

The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It…

— George Bernard Shaw