Frail Quote by Edith Wharton

There is some confusion between insects and creatures, insects are common, and certain creatures are curious … possibly fun.

— Grass Hopper

Because there is something helpless and weak and innocent - something like an infant - deep inside us all that really suffers in ways…

— Anonymous

All things human hang by a slender thread; and that which seemed to stand strong suddenly falls and sinks in ruins.

— Ovid

Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only…

— H. Bentley Glass

A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

— Ambrose Bierce

Eating insects is good for the environment and balanced diets.

— Kofi Annan

[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung…

— Annie Dillard

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

— Emile M. Cioran

I now found that the spider cannot fix its thread to anything without imprinting the hind part of its body on the place, by…

— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

“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 bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

— Terence Trent D'Arby