The world is full of insects, and full of quotes and proverbs in which insects are mentioned. Enjoy!
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The fly flutters around the candle till at last it gets burnt.
The fly flutters around the candle till it gets burnt.
The fly has no pity for the thin man.
The fly heeds not death; eating is all to him.
The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it's taller than the buffalo.
The fly sat upon the axle of the chariot-wheel and said: 'What a lot of dust I raise!'
The fly sat upon the axle of the chariot-wheel and said: 'What a lot of dust I raise!'.
The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak.
The fly that stands on the carabao's (water buffalo) back thinks that it is taller than the carabao.
The hinge of a door is never crowded with insects.
The idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly.
The insect that eats the leaf is under the leaf.
The lean dog is all fleas.
The lepidopterist who records in her notebook that a butterfly is blue may not stop to consider that this is true only because the giant ball of nuclear fuel ninety-three million miles away happens to maintain a surface temperature just right for shedding certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation on the Earth; that the eyes of humans have evolved to be sensitive to those wavelengths; that the eye can discriminate slightly different wavelengths as colours; that one of those colours has, by cultural consensus, been defined as 'blue', and so on. Nevertheless, science benefits from the lepidopterist's note that the butterfly is blue.
Bill BrysonSource: Seeing further: the story of science & the Royal Society
The light of the firefly is sufficient for itself only.
The little ant at its hole is full of courage.
The locust flies with the wings of a falcon.
The locust lives only a little while, but it does great damage.
The locusts have no king, yet go they forth all of them by bands.
BibleSource: Proverbs 30:27
The loudest bark rids not a dog of his fleas.
The man who has been beaten by a firebrand runs away at the sight of a firefly.
The mantis seizes the locust but does not see the yellow bird behind him.
The more hair a dog has, the more fleas he will have.
The mosquito is more dangerous than the tiger.
The mosquito is small, but when he sings, your ears are full of him.
The mosquito is without a soul, but its whizzing vexes the soul.
The most fragrant of flowers are eaten by the green-fly.
The moth does most mischief to the finest garment.
The noise of the giant bees flying to and fro and crawling in and out filled all the air.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About Beorn's bee hives
The skinnier the dog, the more fleas he has.
The smallest insect may cause death by its bite.
The spider and the fly can't make a deal.
The spiders web lets the rat escape and catches the fly.
The summer insect cannot talk of ice; the frog in the well cannot talk of heaven.
The summer insect knows not ice.
The sun was shining brilliantly, and it was a long while before he could bear it. When he could, he saw all round him a sea of dark green, ruffled here and there by the breeze; and there were everywhere hundreds of butterflies.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo on top of a tree.
The three most difficult to understand; the mind of a woman, the labor of the bees and the ebb and flow of the tide.
(unknown author)The tiny ant dares to enter the lion's ear.
The wise bee does not sip from a flower that has fallen.
The world flatters the elephant and tramples on the ant.
Their mosquito won't bite me.
There are no flies on him.
He is not a fool, he cannot be tricked.There are, however, some winged creatures that walk on all fours that you may eat: those that have jointed legs for hopping on the ground.
BibleSource: Leviticus 11
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster FullerThere was a buzzing and a whirring and a droning in the air. Bees were busy everywhere. And such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. ... They were bigger than hornets. The drones were bigger than your thumb, a good deal, and the band of yellow on their deep black bodies shone like fiery gold.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About the bees of Beorn.
There were insects, too, hideous crawling things, with eyes that stared upon him, and filled the very air around, glistening horribly amidst the thick darkness of the place.
Charles DickensSource: The Pickwick Papers
There were moths fluttering about, and the light became very dim, for the moon had not risen.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
There's always a bigger maggot.
They are flies that are born of a wasp.
They were a kind of "purple emperor", a butterfly that loves the tops of oak-woods, but these were not purple at all, they were a dark dark velvety black without any markings to be seen.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo looking at butterflies
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