Ants Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Turn on the prudent Ant, thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, Sluggard, and be wise.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ants Being wise Eye Labor Laziness Prudent Turn on Turns Wise
Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues… — Akhenaton Copy Share Image
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no laboring i' the winter. — William Shakespeare (1564_1616 Copy Share Image
“BUSY old fool, unruly Sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant, Who bore the storms as he bore the sun, Wearing neither gown nor helmet, Though he was… — Jose Garcia Villa Copy Share Image
Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
“Why, what a wasp-stung and impatient fool Art thou, to break into this woman's mood, Tying thine ear to no tongue but thine own!” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world. Yet from this lesson thou will learn to… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson 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
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
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
When I was little, I would burn ants with a magnifying glass. But now that I'm older, I'm more of a cat guy. — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
