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| If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. ~ American Quaker Saying |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee’s house some day. ~ Congo Proverb |
The spider’s touch, how exquisitely fine!
Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
~ Alexander Pope |
| Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test. ~ Astrid Alauda |
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 |
| The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. ~ Andy Warhol |
| Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. ~ Bradley Millar |
What do you suppose?
A bee sat on my nose.
Then what do you think?
He gave me a wink
And said, "I beg your pardon,
I thought you were the garden."
~ English Rhyme |
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God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
~ Ogden Nash |
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 |
| If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~ Betty Reese |
I never could have thought of it,
To have a little bug all lit
And made to go on wings.
~ Elizabeth Madox Roberts |
How doth the little busy bee
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
~ Isaac Watts |
| The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. ~ Emily Dickinson |
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, |
| We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~ Gerald Brenan |
And what’s a buterfly? At best,
He’s but a ceterpillar, drest.
~ John Grey |
| Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn’t be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn’t know it, so it goes on flying anyway. ~ Mary Kay Ash |
| House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. ~ Ambrose Bierce, |
| We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales. Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. ~ Joseph W. Krutch |