Insect Quotes Page 2 And what's a buterfly? At best, He's but a ceterpillar, drest. - John Grey "Anteaters are generally found at picnics" - Unknown "Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway." - Mary Kay Ash "Bees are not a busy as we think they are. They just cannot buzz any slower." - Kin Hubbard The Twelve Seasons Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint. - Joseph W Krutch Buzz, buzz, buzz, buzz! Busy bee! Busy bee! Busy Bee! Sting if you like, but don't sting me! - Arthur Askey There was an old man in a tree Who was horribly bored by a bee. - Edward Lear Merchant of Venice Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools! - William Shakespeare So, naturalists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller fleas to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. - Jonathon Swift Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy. - Mark Twain We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. - Bill Vaughan © 2001 - present. Australian Media Pty Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Please read our Legal Statement and Privacy Policy.