Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in law schools. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
People are not to be driven and you can put into a gnat’s eye all the souls of the children of men… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God. — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been… — Alfred Sturtevant Copy Share Image
Guitar playing, as currently understood, has more to do with sports than it does to do with music. It's an Olympic challenge… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence… — Coventry Patmore Copy Share Image
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of… — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
They believe themselves Lucifer's equals, Cain, all these pitiful little gnats. But there is only one that we have ever owned to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them… — Fred Allen Copy Share Image
“Gnats drifted on the same warm summer breeze that saw colorful paper lanterns swaying on their strings. Lily of the valley filled… — Anouska Knight Copy Share Image
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is not the bigness of anything in this kind that can hinder its motion, if the motive faculty be answerable thereunto.… — John Wilkins Copy Share Image
“Some flies and gnats were sitting on my paper and this disturbed me; I breathed on them to make them go, then… — Knut Hamsun Copy Share Image
I'm gonna say it one more time. We are Georgia Southern. Our colors are blue and white. We call ourselves the Bald… — Erk Russell Copy Share Image
I wish we could spend July by the sea, browning ourselves and feeling water-weighted hair flow behind us from a dive. I… — Zelda Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Crawling at your feet,' said the Gnat (Alice drew her feet back in some alarm), 'you may observe a Bread-and-Butterfly. Its wings… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful. — Vic Chesnutt Copy Share Image
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. — John Muir Copy Share Image
Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no… — Khwaja Abdullah Ansari Copy Share Image
The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea.… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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… — J.D. Robb Copy Share Image
