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Alexander Pope
The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.
Allen Klein
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?
American Quaker Saying
If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.
Andy Warhol
The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
Betty Reese
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Bill Vaughan
We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics.
Bradley Millar
Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Congo Proverb
When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon
Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonflyHangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky.
Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Firefly
I never could have thought of it,To have a little bug all litAnd made to go on wings.
Emily Dickinson
The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.
English Rhyme
What do you suppose?A bee sat on my nose.Then what do you think?He gave me a winkAnd said, I beg your pardon,I thought you were the garden.
Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Isaac Watts, Divine Songs
How doth the little busy beeImprove each shining hour,And gather honey all the dayFrom every opening flower!
John Grey
And what's a buterfly? At best,He's but a ceterpillar, drest.
Joseph W. Krutch
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.
Mark Twain
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.
Mary Kay Ash
Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway.
Ogden Nash
Some primal termite knocked on wood;and tasted it, and found it good.That is why your Cousin Mayfell through the parlor floor today.
Ogden Nash, The Fly
God in His wisdom made the flyAnd then forgot to tell us why.
 
 
 
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