“ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
“ Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever. ”
- Sebastien Roch Nicolas De Chamfort- Copy
“ The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes. ”
- Charlotte Curtis- Copy
“ I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. ”
- Charles Darwin- Copy
“ A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. ”
- Norton Juster- Copy
“ That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
“ The air came laden with the fragrance it caught upon its way, and the bees, upborne upon its scented breath, hummed forth their drowsy satisfaction as they floated by. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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