Quotations about Insects

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


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


God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
~Ogden Nash, "The Fly"


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, "Firefly"


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


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, Silent Noon


We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~Gerald Brenan


And what's a butterfly? At best, He's but a caterpillar, 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


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