Quotes of Vermin - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ I hate mosquitoes. I mean, I know I'm delicious but dang! ”

- Unknown

“ I wish I were a glow worm, A glow worm's never glum. 'Cuz how can you be grumpy When the sun shines out your bum? ”

- Unknown

“ Fireflies are light angels of the dark. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug. ”

- Josh Billings

“ House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ”

- Gerald Brenan

“ Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. ”

- Dante Gabriel Rossetti

“ If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ”

- Betty Reese

“ 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

“ God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why. ”

- Ogden Nash

“ Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ”

- Bradley Millar

“ The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. ”

- Andy Warhol

“ I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin. ”

- George Wither

“ Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ”

- Terri Guillemets

“ Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes? ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. ”

- Bill Vaughn
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