Beetle Quotes

44 quotes by 38 authors

Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a mortgage beats 'em… — Will Carleton
I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his — Arthur Conan Doyle
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. — Ambrose Bierce
After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the end of its… — Primo Levi
There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only the burying beetle… — Richard Livingstone
Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native species in the… — Richard Louv
I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although I've never driven… — Stefan Sagmeister
When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky… — Albert Einstein
I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice. — Karl Pilkington
In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or… — E. O. Wilson
Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle. — Arthur Schopenhauer
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
The beauteous dragonfly's dancing By the waves of the rivulet glancing; She dances here and she dances there, The glimmering, glittering flutterer fair. Full many… — Heinrich Heine
The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As… — William Shakespeare
When the war was over and the guys were back to shaving every day, the editor thought the Beetle Bailey strips were hurting their disciplinary… — Mort Walker
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember… — Paul Nurse
It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in… — E. O. Wilson
In the sago palms, you'll often find sago beetles which are about the size of your little finger. The Karowai put those on the fire… — Tim Cahill
SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew… — Ambrose Bierce
In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson

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