“ Don't mistake vivacity for wit, thare iz about az much difference az thare iz between lightning and a lightning bug. ”
- Josh Billings- Copy
“ House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
“ We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ”
- Gerald Brenan- Copy
“ Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky. ”
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti- Copy
“ If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ”
- Betty Reese- Copy
“ 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
“ Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ”
- Bradley Millar- Copy
“ 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- Copy
“ Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ”
- Terri Guillemets- Copy
“ 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
“ The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
“ If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things. ”
- Albert Einstein- Copy
“ 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- Copy
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