“ If you think you're too small to make a difference, you've obviously never been in bed with a mosquito. ”
- Michelle Walker- Copy
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“ Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede - not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen. ”
- G. C. Lichtenberg- Copy
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“ Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. ”
- Eric Hoffer- Copy
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“ As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. ”
- Franz Kafka- Copy
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“ What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
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“ The early bird gets the worms, but the second mouse always gets the cheese. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything as you like it, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. ”
- D. H. Lawrence- Copy
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“ We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ”
- Gerald Brenan- Copy
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“ Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. ”
- Jonathan Swift- Copy
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“ What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ A slander is like a hornet; if you can't kill it dead the first time, better not strike at it. ”
- Henry Wheeler Shaw- Copy
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“ Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. ”
- Elias Canetti- Copy
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“ What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breath. ”
- Johann Friedrich von Schiller- Copy
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“ The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place — social service — the ants creed, the bees creed. ”
- John Galsworthy- Copy
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“ 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
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“ Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em all. ”
- Will Carleton- Copy
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“ It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
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“ Take a lesson from the mosquito. She never waits for an opening — she makes one. ”
- Kirk Kirkpatrick- Copy
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“ When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something. ”
- Ursula Andress- Copy
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“ When I was a kidI liked burning ants with a magnifying glass.but I think that progressed into adulthood where I now believe in aliens. ”
- Lee Ryan- Copy
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“ Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
- 388
“ Butterflies… not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. ”
- Elizabeth Goudge- Copy
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