Humor Quote by Janet Kagan

“Cockroaches appeared 120 million years before the dinosaurs.”

— John Lloyd

“I knew that cockroaches could go more than a month without food or water. And they could even survive on wood for food. And…

— Clarice Lispector

“Missing, however, are nearly all fauna adapted to us. The seemingly invincible cockroach, a tropical import, long ago froze in unheated apartment buildings. Without…

— Alan Weisman

“A cockroach appeared just as I was about to get into the bath. It was just the right time for a cockroach to make…

— Michel Houellebecq

I've found that wherever there is one cockroach in plain sight, many more are lurking behind the corner out of view.

— Harry Markopolos

“At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and cockroaches calling…

— Jerzy Kosiński

“A cockroach can live nine days without its head”

— Adam Anderson

“On Sunday morning, I awoke to find two cockroach corpses crushed on my mattress. I must have rolled on top of them in my…

— Shaun Attwood

The cockroach and the bird were both here long before we were. Both could.

— Joseph Wood Krutch

“Heavenly Bastard in the Sky, these cockroaches were sadomasochists, looking for the most painful way to die. Once I swallowed one absent-mindedly drinking my…

— Xiaolu Guo

Contrary to popular belief, not a significant amount of research goes into cockroach radiation.

— Grant Imahara

“I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker