Quotes on insects

butterfly on flower

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

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House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
Bierce, Ambrose

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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.
Vaughan, Bill

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The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy.
Dickinson, Emily

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Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.
Alauda, Astrid

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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.
Fischer, Martin H.

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Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway.
Ash, Mary Kay

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If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.
Reese, Betty

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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.
Twain, Mark

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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.
Krutch, Joseph W.

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Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.
Millar, Bradley

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The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.
Warhol, Andy

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