"We are closer to the ants than to……" — Gerald Brenan
"We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure."
More Ants Quotes
- Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler
- I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. — A. S. Byatt
- May this house stand until an ant drinks the ocean and a tortoise circles the world. — Jonathan Carroll
- I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's… — Adam Ant
- No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
- It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus… — Charles Darwin
- There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has… — Winston Churchill
- The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird,… — E. O. Wilson
- Ants are good citizens; they place group interest first. But they carry it so far, they have few or no… — Clarence Day
- The diversity of mankind is a basic postulate of our knowledge of human beings. But if mankind is diverse and… — Murray Rothbard
- Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago.… — Abraham Lincoln