The world is full of insects, and full of quotes and proverbs in which insects are mentioned. Enjoy!
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Active people never have louse bites.
After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
Franco HarrisAll flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them.
BibleSource: Deuteronomy 14
All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you.
BibleSource: Leviticus 11
Ambition and fleas jump high.
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 ant's nest could bring down a hill.
An eagle does not catch flies.
An elephant does not feel a flea bite.
An elephant may be big, but it falls on its face more often than an ant.
An Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea.
An optimist is one who believes that a fly is looking for a way to get out.
And a locust unto Mahomet said: 'We are the army of the great God; we produce ninety-nine eggs; if the hundred were completed, we should consume the whole earth and all that is in it.'
(unknown author)And the LORD did this. Dense swarms of flies poured into Pharaoh's palace and into the houses of his officials, and throughout Egypt the land was ruined by the flies.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:24
And the LORD did what Moses asked: The flies left Pharaoh and his officials and his people; not a fly remained.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:31
Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest.
Pope Paul VIAnts can attack with a grain of rice.
Ants die in sugar.
Ants follow fat.
Ants live safely till they have gotten wings.
Ants never lend, ants never borrow.
Any spoke will lead the ant to the hub.
Around a flowering tree, there are many insects.
As busy as a bee.
As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
BibleSource: Ecclesiastes 10:1
As different as an elephant and a mosquito.
As Dr. John Maunder of the British Medical Entomology Centre has put it: "If you wash lousy clothing at low temperatures, all you get is cleaner lice."
Bill BrysonSource: At Home
As snug as a bug in a rug.
Very snug. Warm and comfortable.At high tide fish eat ants; at low tide ants eat fish.
Be thine enemy an ant, see in him an elephant.
Bees do not become hornets.
Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.
Beetle away.
Move away quicklyBeetle brain.
Not too cleverBetter a handful of bees than a basket full of flies.
Better an ant's head than a lion's tail.
Better have one bee than a host of flies.
Better the wolves eat us than the fleas.
Better to be an ant's head than a lion's tail.
Beware of a man's shadow and a bee's sting.
Big black bugs bleed blue black blood but baby black bugs bleed blue blood.
(unknown author)Tongue twister.
Big fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite them, and little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
Augustus De MorganBig flies break the spider web.
Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees.
(unknown author)
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