The world is full of insects, and full of quotes and proverbs in which insects are mentioned. Enjoy!
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If a bee didn't have a sting, she couldn't keep her honey.
If a bee stings you once, it's the bee's fault; if a bee stings you twice, it's your own damn fault.
If a flea had money, it would buy its own dog.
If caterpillars were meant to fly, God would have given them wings.
If chickens were judges, cockroaches would be sentenced.
If only I were a bird! Ah, but eating caterpillars?
If the flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado, it can equally well be instrumental in preventing a tornado.
Edward Norton LorenzIf the hill is on fire the grasshoppers are roasted.
If there is a creator, he must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.
J.B.S. HaldaneIf they are offered winged ants, people will eat them.
If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground where they are.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:21
If you let the bee be, the bee will let you be.
If you lie down with dogs, you'll get up with fleas.
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.
Willie DavisIf you think that something small cannot make a difference - try going to sleep with a mosquito in the room.
In a battle between elephants, the ants get squashed.
In a court of fowls, the cockroach never wins his case.
In a garment made of silk there are no fleas.
In an ant colony dew is a flood.
In every enemy that is an ant, behold an elephant.
In every little house there is a little louse.
In heaven you won't hear the mosquitoes.
In his own nest a beetle is a sultan.
In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.
BibleSource: Isaiah 7:18
In the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found spiders all right. But they were only small ones of ordinary size, and they were after the butterflies.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
What Bilbo sees after climbing a tree
In the steppe even a beetle is meat.
In times of emergency the devil eats flies.
In watching for the ant, you let the elephant pass unnoticed
Insects are living metaphors for me. They are so alien and so remote and so perfect, but also they are emotionless; they don't have any human or mammalian instincts. They'll eat their young at the drop of a hat; they can eat your house! There's no empathy - none.
Guillermo del ToroInsects do not nest in a busy door-hinge.
Into a closed mouth no fly will enter.
Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
It brought thousands of dark-grey and black moths, some nearly as big as your hand, flapping and whirring round their ears.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About the effect of lighting watch-fires
It is easier to guard a bushel of fleas than a woman.
It is easier to guard a sack full of fleas than a girl in love.
It is easier to watch over one hundred fleas than one young girl.
It is foolish to show glowworms by candle light.
It is not summer until the crickets sing.
It is the web, not the spider, that catches the fly.
It was so quiet in there you could have heard a fly fart.
Bill BrysonSource: Lost Continent
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Rob GilbertIt's easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
It's not the fleas of the dog that make the cat meow.
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.
Its the roving bee that gathers honey.
Kill a small insect to let live a big one.
Knee-high to a grasshopper.
A very small child.Laws are like cobwebs where the small flies are caught and the big ones break through.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
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