however, while the gnats were swarming like locusts

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

— Jean de La Fontaine

I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald Eagles. We…

— Erk Russell

You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work.

— Gene Simmons

Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous…

— John Muir

With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling…

— Michael Gove

Television is a triumph of equipment over people,

— Fred Allen

I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter.

— Jeff Daniels

By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

— William Shakespeare

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

— Alfred Sturtevant

Linnæus, setting out for Lapland, surveys his "comb" and "spare shirt," "leathern breeches" and "gauze cap to keep off gnats," with as much complacency…

— Henry David Thoreau

Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge type of…

— Frank Zappa

“Don’t you swat away my concerns like they’re gnats around your ears.” He got to his feet as well. “Don’t you dare make light…

— J.D. Robb

If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship…

— Coventry Patmore

Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools.

— Robert A. Heinlein