We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants…

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

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

— Karel Capek

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

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

— Lauren Oliver

“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

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

“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

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

— Bert Holldobler

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

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

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

“Lies are like ants; there's never just one.”

— Julia Ash

There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated…

— Victor Pelevin

When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy.

— Anthony Jeselnik

If ants were the size of humans, they would be able to run twice as fast as a Lamborghini.

— Anonymous