Ants Quotes

253 quotes by 208 authors

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics? — Marie Dressler
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson
We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And… — Andrea Corr
We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. — Weston La Barre
What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment. — Friedrich Schiller
When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of… — Sakya Pandita
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It's better to keep grief inside. Grief inside works like bees or ants, building curious and perfect structures, complicating you. Grief outside means you want… — Hilary Thayer Hamann
How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. — Khalil Gibran
Ants are good citizens: they place group interests first. — Clarence Day
Now I know that patience and time can do more than even strength and passion. The years of frustration are ready to be harvested. All… — Og Mandino
Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men. — Henry David Thoreau
The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of… — Lewis Mumford
The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If… — Bert Holldobler
If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week. — Bert Holldobler
An ant has no quarrel with a boot. — Tom Hiddleston
I think people believe that I give ant aura of someone who has both feet on the ground. — Joe Morton
My childhood was elegant homes, tree lined streets, the milkman, building backyard forts, droning airplanes, blue skies, picket fences, green grass, cherry trees. Middle America… — David Lynch
People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants. — Bela Lugosi
Who's Got Game? The Ant or the Grasshopper? The Lion or the Mouse? Poppy or the Snake? — Toni Morrison

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