Busy as an ant? Take a break for these proverbs and quotes about ants.
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A coconut shell full of water is an ocean to an ant.
An ant can do more than an ox that is lying down.
An ant guarding a mango.Used for a boy who is careful not to let other boys near his girlfriend.
An ant hole may collapse an embankment.
An ant is over six feet tall when measured by its own foot-rule.
An ant may work its heart out, but it can't make money.
An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
An ant watching over a bunch of mangoes.Worrying about something you will not get any benefit from.
An elephant may be big, but it falls on its face more often than an ant.
Ants never lend, ants never borrow.
Any spoke will lead the ant to the hub.
At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
Caution is not cowardice; even the ants march armed.
Don't even step on an ant.
Even an ant can hurt an elephant.
Even the ant has his bite.
Even the sharpest ear cannot hear an ant singing.
Even the wishes of a small ant reach heaven.
For an ant to have wings would be his undoing.
Go to the ant thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.Bible
Source: Proverbs 6:6
Go to the ant you sluggard.Bible
Source: Proverbs 6:6
A warning against laziness.
He who cannot pick up an ant, and wants to pick up an elephant will some day see his folly.
He who runs from the white ant may stumble upon the stinging ant.
He who storms in like a whirlwind returns like an ant.
If they are offered winged ants, people will eat them.
In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed.
In an ant colony dew is a flood.
In every enemy that is an ant, behold an elephant.
In watching for the ant, you let the elephant pass unnoticed
It's not the monkey on top that make a tree fall but it's the work and effort of numerous small insects and ants.
Many ants kill a camel.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
She's got ants in her pants.A state of restless impatience.
The ambitious one makes friends with the elephant, then tramples upon the ant.
The ant crept forth to her daily toil, the butterfly fluttered and basked in the warm rays of the sun; myriads of insects spread their transparent wings, and revelled in their brief but happy existence. Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour.Charles Dickens
Source: The Pickwick Papers
The constant creeping of ants will wear away the stone.
The eyeless ant asked God: 'Give me eye-lashes'.
The little ant at its hole is full of courage.
The tiny ant dares to enter the lion's ear.
The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant.
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant.
To the ant, a few drops of dew is a flood.
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.Gerald Brenan
When an ant gets wings, it loses its head.
When the ant grows wings it is about to die.
When the water rises the fish eat the ants, when the water falls the ants eat the fish.
Where the sugar is, there will the ant be also.
Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.
