The world is full of insects, and full of quotes and proverbs in which insects are mentioned. Enjoy!
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This is the most complicated potion I've ever seen. .. Lacewing flies, leeches, fluxweed and knotgrass.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Quoted: Hermione
Those who sleep with dogs gets up with fleas.
Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.
Though your enemy is the size of an ant, look upon him as an elephant.
Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man, but they don't bite everybody.
Stanislaw Jerzy LecTicks, bedbugs and a crying child are insupportable.
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho MarxTime sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
Jon LithgowTo a boiling pot flies come not.
To a good approximation, all species are insects.
Robert MayTo a rough approximation and setting aside vertebrate chauvinism, it can be said that essentially all organisms are insects.
R.M. MayTo be as small as a vinegar fly and want to shit like an elephant.
Too big for your bootsTo bug.
To fit a room or telephone with a hidden microphone. To listen secretly to a conversation. To bother, to say something more than once as a reminder and thereby annoy the listener.To gag a maggot.
Stink (e.g. a smell that could gag a maggot)To louse something up.
To spoil or ruin somethingTo produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be that have tried it.
Herman MelvilleTo the ant, a few drops of dew is a flood.
Two caterpillars are conversing and a beautiful butterfly floats by. One caterpillar turns and says to the other: 'You'll never see me flying like one of those butterflies.'
Unlike the singing cicadas, the silent fireflies burn themselves.
Until the crickets sing it is not summer.
Wasp-tailed.
Very slimWaspish.
Bad temperedWe are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Gerald BrenanWe are getting near. We are on the edge of his bee-pastures.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
Quoted: Gandalf
Talking about Beorn
We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles DarwinWhat the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
Richard BachWhat the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.
When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.
Edward Norton LorenzThe butterfly effect
When a fly does not get up off a dead body, he is buried with it.
When an ant gets wings, it loses its head.
When bees are old they yield no honey.
When gnats swarm in January, the peasant becomes a beggar.
When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Five Orange Pips
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
When mosquitoes work, they bite and then they sing.
When the ant grows wings it is about to die.
When the bee sucks, it makes honey; when the spider, poison.
When the mantis hunts the locust, he forgets the shrike that's hunting him.
When the moth flies around the flame, it burns itself to death.
When the water rises the fish eat the ants, when the water falls the ants eat the fish.
When there are lots of insects, look for a good grain year.
When they started to shoe the Sultan's horse, the beetle stretched out its leg.
When you go in search of honey, you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph JoubertWhenever I hear of the capture of rare beetles, I feel like an old war-horse at the sound of a trumpet.
Charles DarwinWhere bees are there is honey.
Where the sugar is, there will the ant be also.
Where there are bees, there is honey.
Where there are dogs there are fleas.
Where there is smoke there is fireWhere there is butter there are flies.
Where there is sugar, there are bound to be ants.
While honey lies in every flower, it takes a bee to get the honey out.
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