We're eatable ants.

“EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS SQUARE SWEETS THAT…

— Roald Dahl

Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before.

— Luigi Barzini

Willy Wonka: everything in this room is eatable. yes, I am eatable but that, children is called cannibelism and is frowned upon in most…

— Charlie And The Choc Factory

“Everything in this room is eatable. Even I am eatable. But that, my dear children, is cannibalism, and is frowned upon in most societies.”

— Ashley Clegg

When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash…

— Rumi

Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes…

— Fannie Flagg

Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites…

— William T. Vollmann

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play.

— Bert Holldobler

“THE FIGHTERS ARE TINY. INSECTS, REALLY. BUT ANTS CAN SLAY AN ELEPHANT, IF THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM. ESPECIALLY ANTS ARMED WITH HIGH-YIELD EXPLOSIVES…

— Amie Kaufman

There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance.…

— Raph Koster

“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.”

— Robert A. Heinlein

People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed.

— Lauren Oliver

Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in…

— Marcus Aurelius

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

— Karel Capek

Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants…

— Hal Borland