Insects Quotes

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This could be how the first flight began?insects just jumped off branches and started gliding.
- Brian Fisher

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Do what we can summer will have its flies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The art finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
- Stephen Vincent

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Earthworms are the intestines of the soil.
- Aristotle

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Around a flowering tree, one finds many insects.
- Proverb

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If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
- American Proverb

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Bottom line, it’s just your most natural insect repellent.
- Paula Companio

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Under our floor, Spider families. Two worlds an inch a part.
- Mike Garofalo

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God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.
- Ogden Nash

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In the right place at the right time, tomato worms on tomato vines.
- Mike Garofalo

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That which is not good for the beehive cannot be good for the bees.
- Marcus Aurelius

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John Gertsch estimated that 64,000 spiders lived in a field near his home.
- John Gertsch

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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason: man is not a fly.
- Alexander Pope

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

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You will catch more flies with a spoonful of honey than with a gallon of vinegar.
- Romanian Proverb

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O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die.
- Basho

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Ladybird, Ladybird, Fly away home, Your house is on fire And your children are gone.
- England Proverb

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To actually go from detecting the insect to the capture, our eyes just don’t take it.
- Cynthia Moss

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I never could have thought of it, To have a little bug all lit And made to go on wings.
- Elizabeth Madox

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Insects are what neurosis would sound like, if neurosis could make a noise with its nose.
- Martin Louis

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The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
- Alexander Pope

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We are in the stickiest situation since sticky the stick insect got stuck on a sticky bun.
- Rowan Atkinson

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His Labor is a Chant his Idleness a Tune oh, for a Bee’s experience of Clovers, and of Noon!
- Emily Dickinson

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Deep in the sun searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue hread loosened from the sky.
- Dante Gabriel

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When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day.
- Congo Proverb

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Fabulous the insects Stud the air Or walk on running water, lee-drawn saints And bright as angels are.
- Anne Wilkinson

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A little beetle passed me by. He didn’t make much fuss, He ran around my garden Like a tiny yellow bus.
- Slyvia Gerditz

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No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.
- Edith Wharton

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The earth without worms would soon become cold, hard-bound, and void of fermentation, and consequently sterile.
- Gilbert White

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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

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Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ‘em and little fleas have lesser fleas and so ad infinitum.
- DeMorgan

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How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower!
- Isaac Watts

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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

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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse, and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson

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This great purple butterfly, In the prison of my hands, Has a learning in his eye Not a poor fool understands.
- William Butler

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No flowers, no bees; No bees, no flowers. Blooming and buzzing, Buzzing and blooming; Married and still in Love.
- Mike Garofalo

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I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
- Holly Valance

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That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction.
- D. H. Lawrence

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For all the startled scaly tribes that slink Into his coverts, and each fearless link Of dancing insects forged upon his breast.
- William Wordsworth

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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 Vaughan

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