Break Quote by Jonathan Swift

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

— Honore de Balzac

Laws catch flies but let hornets go free

— Mrthrill

Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through…

— Solon

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones.

— Honore de Balzac

Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

— Solon

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and…

— Francis Bacon

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

— Neil Gaiman

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.

— Groucho Marx

Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.

— Jean de La Fontaine

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

— Fred Reed

If bees die out we are really going to be in trouble.

— Bez