Ants Quote by Bill Vaughan Download Open image “After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.” — Bill Vaughan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ants Collecting Enjoy Graves Pleasure Thee Worms
“The gravedigger knew a fine trick. When the worms looked unhappy he would leave his place in the mausoleum and go up into the… — L. Joseph Shosty Copy Share Image
Glad tidings to the one who leaves the world before it leaves him, prepares for his grave before he enters it, and pleases his… — Yahya ibn Mu'adh al-Razi Copy Share Image
Shun to seek what is hid in the womb of the morrow, and set down as gain in life's ledger whatever time fate shall… — Horace Copy Share Image
Follow pleasure, and then will pleasure flee, Flee pleasure, and pleasure will follow thee. — John Heywood Copy Share Image
“I will come,' the priest answered, 'for I have read in old books of these strange beings which are neither quick nor dead, and… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity, And your quaint honor turn to dust, And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a… — Moliere Copy Share Image
When you leave the desires behind, you will find the graveyards ahead! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
So live, that when thy summons comes to join, The innumerable caravan which moves, To that mysterious realm where each shall take, His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged by his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed, By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of… — Anonymous Copy Share
Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good is best… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no laboring i' the winter. — William Shakespeare (1564_1616 Copy Share Image
“I am a sacrifice bound with cords to the horns of the world's rock altar, waiting for worms. I take a deep breath, I open my eyes. Looking, I see there are worms in the horns of the altar like live maggots in amber, there are shells of worms in the rock and moths flapping at my eyes. A wind… — Annie Dillard Copy Share
When I say to the Moment flying; 'Linger a while -- thou art so fair!' Then bind me in thy bonds undying, And my… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is no occasion for our rejoicing at a foe's death, because our own life will also not last forever. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
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I'm not convinced that the world is in any worse shape than it ever was. It's just that in this age of almost instantaneous… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Historical investigation and literary criticism have taken the magic out of the Bible and have made it a composite human book, written by many… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
There is a major disaster when a person allows some success to become a stopping place rather than a way station on to a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Patience is a most necessary qualification for business; many a man would rather you heard his story than granted his request. One must seem… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It may be asserted without scruple, that no otherclass of dependants have had their character so entirely distorted from its natural proportions by their… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
I believe that God will help us to forget things, the memory of which would do us harm, or rather that He will enable us to remember only so much of them as will be for our good, and we, ourselves, not emotionally overwhelmed. The pain endured. The lesson learned. Let it now be forgotten! Face the future with courage,… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share
He knows not the value of a day of pleasure who has not seen adversity. — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keepon digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming… — Hal Borland Copy Share
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
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 stuck to them. You are too intent upon your chewing and gathering to listen to me, but I tell you that despite my warm feelings I really do not like you, and I cannot feel sorry… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share
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 and grasshoppers and beetles and potato bugs, ants . . . and put them in a jar and look at them. They have the sweetest little faces and the cutest expressions. After we'd looked at them… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share
When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash that ant at once, it might grow into a snake, or even a dragon. — Rumi Copy Share
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 form. . . . According to this point of view, there is only a limited number of names, because society only needs a limited number of human types. Just a few models of worker and warrior… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share
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 Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
