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Quotes about Ants


He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the Universe.

Sir Thomas Browne

The solitary, silent, solemn scene, Where Caesars, heroes, peasants, hermits lie, Blended in dust together; where the slave Rests from his labors; where th' insulting proud Resigns his powers; the miser drops his hoard: Where human folly sleeps.

John Dyer

We weep over the graves of infants and the little ones taken from us by death; but an early grave may be the shortest way to heaven.

Tryon Edwards

Gard'ner, for telling me these news of woe, Pray God the plants thou graft'st may never grow.

William Shakespeare

Hell is paved with infants' skulls.

Richard Baxter

Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be first.

Pearl Bailey

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

William O. Douglas

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

Isak Dinesen

For He, who gave this vast machine to roll, Breathed Life in then, in us a Reasoning Soul; That kindred feelings might our state improve, And mutual wants conduct to mutual love.

Juvenal (Decimus Junius Juvenal)

If you're robbing a bank and you're pants fall down, I think it's okay to laugh and to let the hostages laugh too, because, come on, life is funny.

Jack Handey

An idler is a watch that wants both hands; As useless if it goes as when it stands.

William Cowper

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall - Think of it, ALWAYS.

Mahatma Gandhi

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Bob Dylan

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Alexander Graham Bell

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Thomas Alva Edison

If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

Charles M. Allen

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

William Shakespeare

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.

George Bernard Shaw

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

Paul Simon

The rarest things in the world, next to a spirit of discernment, are diamonds and pearls. [Fr., Apres l'esprit de discernement, ce qu'il y a au monde de plus rare, ce sont les diamants et les perles.]

Jean de la Bruyere

If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living in a jungle of weed.

Luther Burbank

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

A A Milne

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; Let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants a tree, is more than all.

John Greenleaf Whittier

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Benjamin Harrison

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

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