Bites Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Mosquito: The only insect that makes you prefer flies.

— Nikhil Saluja

“SUMMER twilight brings the mosquito. In fact, when we go far north or far south, we have him with us both by day and…

— Horace Kephart

“Perhaps it's something other than insomnia, to lie listening to children yelling as if they've re-created light; to try to dream, but succeed only…

— Stuart Dybek

People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito

— Asking Alexander

Insomnia is a variant of Tourette's--the waking brain races, sampling the world after the world has turned away, touching it everywhere, refusing to settle,…

— Jonathan Lethem

“In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my…

— W. G. Sebald

“The tsetse fly infests more than half the mainland,"' making cattle and draft animals impracticable in the infected regions.”

— Thomas Sowell

“Sounds buzz around me, and I'm sure the painted dragonflies have come loose from the frieze on our walls to flap their wings in…

— Sarah Miller

“People who tell you never to let little things bother you have never tried sleeping in a room with a mosquito.”

— Katherine Chandler

Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.

— Herb Caen

People who say that small things don't bother them have never slept in a room with a mosquito.

— Dennis Rainey

Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.

— Christine Todd Whitman