Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essayist, Philosopher, Poet
"Do what we can, summer will have its flies."
Insects quotes
Insects
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!"
Emile M. Cioran
Philosopher, Essayist
"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Actress
"mosquitoes were using my ankles as filling stations."
Robert A. Heinlein
Science Fiction Author
"Specialization is for insects."
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"O cricket from your cherry cry No one would ever guess How quickly you must die."
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"Is there a polity better ordered, the offices better distributed, and more inviolably observed and maintained, than that of bees?"
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"The Planet drifts to random insect doom."
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"In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly."
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"Specialization is for insects... The race of man? He's a whole other creature."
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"Specialisation is for insects!"
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"Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects."
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"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject"
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