Ants Quote by Isoroku Yamamoto Download Open image “The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants,” — Isoroku Yamamoto ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ants Fiercest Serpent May Overcoming Serpent Serpent Overcome Swarm Ants Swarms
Not every ant which stays under the elephant's foot dies; the most powerful cannot always kill the weakest! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It would seem that the ant works its way tentatively, and, observing where it fails, tries another place and succeeds. — Richard Jefferies Copy Share Image
“We had no compunction toward our enemies [the ants] and took to increasingly desperate and violent means of dealing with them. If we noticed… — Vivek Shanbhag Copy Share Image
Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into wars, use… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Should hostilities once break out between Japan and the United States, it is not enough that we take Guam and the Philippines, nor even… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass. — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I sincerely desire to be appointed Commander in Chief of the air fleet to attack Pearl Harbor so that I may personally command that… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
The fate of the Empire rests on this enterprise. Every man must devote himself totally to the task in hand. — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Even though there wasn't much damage, it's a disgrace that the skies over the imperial capital should have been defiled without a single enemy… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Japan has always regarded the aircraft carrier as one of the most offensive of armaments. — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I entered the navy with the great ambition of becoming a naval soldier and going to war. Either I die from this festering wound… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Although a precise outlook on the international situation is hard for anyone to make, it is needless to say that now the time has… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass. — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
A military man can scarcely pride himself on having 'smitten a sleeping enemy'; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one… — Isoroku Yamamoto 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