Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (1556)

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48 points·drdee··6 comments

"Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em, And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum. And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on; While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on."

-Augustus De Morgan

The Vermin only teaze and pinch / Their Foes superior by an Inch. / So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea / Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey, / And these have smaller yet to bite 'em, / And so proceed ad infinitum: / Thus ev'ry Poet, in his Kind / Is bit by him that comes behind

- Jonathan Swift :)

"It is the way of the world, Baldrick. The abused always kick downwards. I am annoyed, and so I kick the cat, the cat pounces on the mouse, and finally, the mouse --bites you on the behind."

"And what do I do?"

"Nothing. You are last in God's great chain. Unless there's an earwig around here you'd like to victimize."

- Sir Edmund Blackadder

“ Adam

Had’em”

— Lines On the Antiquity of Microbes

Might be bugs on some of you mugs, but there ain't no bugs on me!

> “Serpens ni edat serpentem, draco non fiet” (A serpent, unless it devours a serpent, will not become a dragon)

And dragons do not become less hungry. This is a fair summary of current world events.

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