“ How Nature delights and amuses us by varying even the character of insects: the ill-nature of the wasp, the sluggishness of the drone, the volatility of the butterfly, the slyness of the bug. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 3.9K
“ We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ”
- Gerald Brenan- Copy
- 1.5K
“ Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ”
- Terri Guillemets- Copy
- 612
“ Large flocks of butterflies, all kinds of happy insects, seem to be in a perfect fever of joy and sportive gladness. ”
- John Muir- Copy
- 2.5K
“ Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard? ”
- Allen Klein- Copy
- 579
“ Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ”
- Bradley Millar- Copy
- 3.7K
“ Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin May fell through the parlor floor today. ”
- Ogden Nash- Copy
- 2K
“ Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. ”
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
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“ A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted — the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Pleasure's a Moth, that sleeps by dayAnd dances by false glare at night;But Joy's a Butterfly, that lovesTo spread its wings in Nature's light. ”
- William Henry Davies- Copy
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“ House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
- 1.1K
“ Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. ”
- Jean de La Fontaine- Copy
- 2.2K
“ We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. ”
- Benito Mussolini- Copy
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“ A man thinks he amounts to a great deal, but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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