Ants Quote by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which…

— Horace

Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.

— Mason Cooley

I've watched goldfish make babies, and ants execute earwigs. I've seen a fly deliver live young while having its head eaten by a mantis.…

— N.D. Wilson

“Study your prey, learn her habits, accustom her to your presence by seeming harmless and kind. And then, when she is tame and off-guard,…

— Mary Hoffman

What is the Law of the Jungle? Strike first and then give tongue.

— Rudyard Kipling

It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds.

— Richard Jefferies

“His mind immediately seized on this metaphor and when he looked down at his wet hands he saw that they had taken on the…

— Christa Faust

When the reptile is attacked at one mouth of his burrow, he shows himself at another.

— Henry David Thoreau

Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from…

— John Ralston Saul

As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she…

— Mark Twain

The honied tongue hath its poison.

— Publilius Syrus

The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.

— Joseph Butler