Acquire Quote by Henry Adams

“The spider's web: She finds an innocuous corner in which to spin her web. The longer the web takes, the more fabulous its construction.…

— Donna Lynn Hope

Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and…

— Aldous Huxley

Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; he had acute…

— Henry Adams

My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies.

— William Shakespeare

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this…

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

He was having more fun than a barrelful of monkeys.* *Several years earlier Spider had actually been tremendously disappointed by a barrelful of monkeys.…

— Neil Gaiman

“Sat in the Jacuzzi last night looking at the dark recesses of the nozzles. Remembering the story I wrote about spiders nesting there. Multifaceted…

— Neil Leckman

Seamless, careful, by-the-book performance provides no evidence of what the spider's thinking about the fly enmeshed in its web.

— John Edgar Wideman

There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

— Isabella Rossellini

I don't like spiders; setting a trap is the art of low creatures! Who shall ever lay a trap shall be the meanest being…

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

“In Tennessee I Found a Firefly" Flashing in the grass; the mouth of a spider clung to the dark of it: the legs of…

— Mary Szybist

“Twenty-six thousand feet up the cols of Everest, a long way beyond the staying power of plants, pale spiders have been found, who subsist…

— James Agee