Ants Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ants Changed Fables Life Long Long ago Men Stills
The truth is, we [women] live like bats, or owls, labor like beasts, and die like worms. — Margaret Cavendish Copy Share Image
Not to engage in this pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
Man is the ant of the Universe; He is not an important creature, at least at the moment! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
Our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated… — Elaine Morgan Copy Share Image
“We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in… — Mary McDermott Shideler Copy Share Image
The theories of men changed from day to day. Much that is taught new will tomorrow be in the discard, but the word of… — Joseph Fielding Smith Copy Share Image
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. — Jean Rostand Copy Share Image
One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel. — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
Pray look upon the plants and birds, the ants, spiders, and bees, and you will see them all exerting their nature, and busy in… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
People are like ants: Just a few of them give all the orders. And most of them spend their lives getting squashed. — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Some people are ants by nature; they have to work, even when it’s useless. Few people have a talent for constructive laziness.” — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
There's a good case to be made that having fun is a key evolutionary advantage right next to opposable thumbs in terms of importance.… — Raph Koster Copy Share Image
“THE FIGHTERS ARE TINY. INSECTS, REALLY. BUT ANTS CAN SLAY AN ELEPHANT, IF THERE ARE ENOUGH OF THEM. ESPECIALLY ANTS ARMED WITH HIGH-YIELD EXPLOSIVES… — Amie Kaufman Copy Share Image
We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler Copy Share Image
Oh, ants, my sisters, good old honeydew-seekers! From close up you are sticky and shiny and gristly; and your nymphs have parasitic red mites… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
Albert and I would spend hours and hours looking at them. Cleo had this big magnifying glass on his desk, and we'd find centipedes… — Fannie Flagg Copy Share Image
When someone criticizes or disagrees with you, a small ant of hatred and antagonism is born in your heart. If you do not squash… — Rumi Copy Share Image
There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated… — Victor Pelevin Copy Share Image