When the bee comes to your hou...

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day.

~Congo Proverb~

What do you suppose? A bee sat...

What do you suppose? A bee sat on my nose. Then what do you think? He gave me a wink And said, ""I beg your pardon, I thought you were the garden.

~ English Rhyme~

We starve the rats, creosote t...

We starve the rats, creosote the ticks, swat the flies, step on the cockroaches and poison the scales.  Yet when these pests appear in human form we go paralytic.

~Martin H. Fischer~

We hope that, when the insects...

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~

We are closer to the ants than...

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies.  Very few people can endure much leisure.

~Gerald Brenan~

Two-legged creatures we are su...

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~

Though snails are exceedingly ...

Though snails are exceedingly slow, There is one thing I'd like to know. If I out run 'em round the yard, How come they beat me to the chard

~ Allen Klein~

The spider's touch, how exquis...

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line

~ Alexander Pope~

The mosquito is the state bird...

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey.

~Andy Warhol~

Teaching a child not to step o...

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar.

~Bradley Millar~

Some primal termite knocked on...

Some primal termite knocked on wood; and tasted it, and found it good. That is why your Cousin May fell through the parlor floor today

~ Ogden Nash~

Nothing seems to please a fly ...

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~

If you want to live and thrive...

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive.

~American Quaker Saying~

If you think you are too small...

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito.

~Betty Reese~

I never could have thought of ...

I never could have thought of it, To have a little bug all lit And made to go on wings

~ Elizabeth Madox Roberts, ""Firefly""~

How doth the little busy bee I...

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower.

~Isaac Watts~

House, n. A hollow edifice er...

House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.

~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary~

God in His wisdom made the fly...

God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why

~ Ogden Nash, ""The Fly""~

Deep in the sun-searched growt...

Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragonfly Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky

~ Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Silent Noon~

Cockroaches really put my &#34...

Cockroaches really put my "all creatures great and small" creed to the test.

~Astrid Alauda~