Ant Quotes
149 quotes by 129 authors
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I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of…
— Lewis Thomas
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Sugar and sand may be mixed together, but the ant rejects the sand and goes off with the sugar grain; so pious men lift the…
— Ramakrishna
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Everything is a hero: A lighthouse which gives light to us; weeds that provide shelter to little insects; a water drop which quenches a thirsty…
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
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I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm.
— Milton Berle
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Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.
— Elizabeth Smart
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It's only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.
— Harry Hill
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Who could believe an ant in theory? A giraffe in blueprint? Ten thousand doctors of what's possible Could reason half the jungle out of being.
— John Ciardi
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Every time a significant discovery is being made one sets in motion a tremendous activity in laboratories and industrial enterprises throughout the world. It is…
— Bengt I. Samuelsson
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For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she…
— Horace
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Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is both an unfinished…
— Eric Hoffer
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Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as…
— Guru Nanak
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The instincts of the ant are very unimportant, considered as the ants; but the moment a ray of relation is seen to be a monitor,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee.
— Bill Vaughan
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You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.
— Robert Fulghum
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The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation.
— Clarence Day
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Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey.
— Janice Dickinson
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It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
— David Icke
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I don't believe in pets. I like animals to be wild and free. But I can sit and watch an ant run up and down…
— John Lydon
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I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so…
— Miriam Makeba
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Argentine political life is like the life of an ant community or an African forest tribe: full of events, full of crisis and deaths, but…
— V.S. Naipaul
Who Wrote These Ant Quotes
129 authors contributed a total of 149 Ant Quotes, led by these top contributors: