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This isn't a war," said the artilleryman. "It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants. — H.G.Wells

When giants fought, ants were crushed. — Rachel Caine

Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants. — Mahatma Gandhi

I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and ... ants. I can understand ants. — A.S. Byatt

I wiggled and squirmed in my seat as if I had ants in my pants, but in reality it was merely impatience. — A.B. Shepherd

If you're always worried about crushing the ants beneath you ... you won't be able to walk. — Kentaro Miura

Do ants get headaches? — David Mitchell

If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around — Kentaro Miura

Lies are ants, the truth is the sun, and questions are a magnifying glass waiting to be picked up by the curious. — Craig Stone

Hey, ants!" she shouted. "Please help. Anteater is very hungry, but cannot find any food. — Emlyn Chand

Ants are a curious race — Robert Frost

Thoreau said: "It is not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is what are you so busy about? — Anonymous

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. — Jonathan Haidt

One difference between ants and humans is that while ants send their old women off to war, humans send their young men. — E. O. Wilson

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them. — E. O. Wilson

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. — Gautama Buddha

Some girls are like ants in your pants — P.G. Wodehouse

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. — Mortimer Adler

We are human beings, not ants. — Jami Attenberg

The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being — Ingrid Newkirk

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Every Texan has a project and every picnic has fire-ants. — Beryl Dov

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox. — Max O'Rell

Naw, it's like ants up there, man. Like ants that sound like lions! — Charlie Flynn

No one feels good at four in the morning.
If ants feel good at four in the morning
- three cheers for the ants. — Wislawa Szymborska

I do not see why we should not be as just to an ant as to a human being. — Charles Kingsley

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it. — Lee Woodruff

I'll affect you slowly
as if you were having a picnic in a dream.
There will be no ants.
It won't rain. — Richard Brautigan

Do not kill ants. They are your best friends. — Joe Brainard

We are ants on the carcass of the world, spawned out of nothing, going busily nowhere. One of us dies, the others crawl over us to the pickings. — Morris L. West

We have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs. — Kanye West

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. — Francis Bacon

Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason. — Abbott Lawrence Lowell

I just bought a great gift for my boss - a leaky ant farm. — Milton Berle

The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are ant-liberal and ant-bourgeois ... — Susan Sontag

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? — Henry David Thoreau

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first. — Shaun David Hutchinson

We know of no behavior in ants or any other social insects that can be construed as play. — Bert Holldobler

Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death. — D.E. Navarro

Kids are curious.Kids are watching ants while adults are stepping on them. — Jim Rohn

That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs. — Albert Schweitzer

To an ant on the ground, an airplane probably looks like an ant. — Amanda Bynes

How readily our thoughts swarm upon a new object, lifting it a little way, as ants carry a blade of straw so feverishly, and then leave it. — Virginia Woolf

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant. — Lewis Thomas

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. — Ezra Pound

Ants are busy. They have too much to do to feel bad. — Marshall Thornton

That's what we are now - just ants. Only - "
"Yes," I said.
"We're eatable ants. — H.G.Wells

A whale out of water is over-run by ants. — Laozi

Not all ants use violence to dominate their world, some use more subtle methods. — E. O. Wilson

The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for.
If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor. — Charlie Munger

A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and aliens I'd never heard of. — Shaun David Hutchinson

God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it. — Maria McCann

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first. — Clarence Day

Forbear, thou great good husband, little ant. — Richard Lovelace

The fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants, — Isoroku Yamamoto

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant. — John Donne

One can only snort so many ants and have so much sex before one starts to long for the comfort and companionship of a good book. — Moby

Ants, fighting together, will vanquish the lion. — Saadi

DEATH COMES SLOWLY LIKE ANTS TO A FALLEN FIG — Charles Bukowski

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? — Henry David Thoreau

Just saw two ants drown together in my bathtub and it reminded me of us: a love story. — Melissa Broder

I've been on some fairways that are as good as the greens we putted on back then. We had crab grass. I remember one green where I putted through ants. — Sam Snead

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

We are all, generally, symmetrical: ants, elephants, lions, fish, flowers, leaves. But she was a tree. No one expects a tree to be symmetrical at all. — Aimee Bender

Love is like a picnic without ants, pleasant for a while, but sooner or later something's definitely getting squashed. — Frances Winkler

Capitalism is not a human being. Capitalism is a Moloch, a god, a god of bloody sacrifice that sees human beings as ants — Terence McKenna

We feed upon each other's mouths and minds like ants with social stomachs. — Weston La Barre

After carrying and collecting like the ant, Enjoy-before the grave worm devours thee. — Bill Vaughan

Dad smiles at me. I suddenly feel so stupid for giving up eating when I was thirteen. The ants say: Forget about it. We're all larvae once. — A.S. King

Pray to Him anyway you like, He can even hear the footfall of an ant. — Ramakrishna

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans. — E. O. Wilson

I'd rather be stung to death by a bunch of piss ants. ~Synola Harper, You're Busting My Nuptials — Ann Everett

There is no need for ants to have the ability to fly — Karl Pilkington

We're eatable ants. — H.G.Wells

The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equal respect. — Wayne Pacelle

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. — E. O. Wilson

I observed two large ants, the one red, the other much larger, nearly half an inch long, and black, fiercely contending with one another. — Henry David Thoreau

Red ants that had a sour farty smell when they were squashed. — Arundhati Roy

I can't believe you said that about fire ants and thunderstorms! You are such a Houstonist! — Wil Wheaton

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. — Frederick Buechner

It occurs to me that we crush insects beneath our feet, miracles of creation too, beetles, worms, cockroaches, ants, in their various ways. — J.M. Coetzee

The war of ants over your cloths is prove of your sweetness and attractiveness. — M.F. Moonzajer

[Footnote:] An Ant on a hot stove-lid runs faster than an Ant on a cold one. Who wouldn't? — Will Cuppy

Every living creature is the son of the supreme Lord, and He does not tolerate even ants being killed — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

How narrow is the vision that exalts the busyness of the ant above the singing of the grasshopper. — Khalil Gibran

I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything. — Holly Valance

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. — E. O. Wilson

A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up. — LaDene Mayville

Ants and savages put strangers to death. — Bertrand Russell

Just as ants do when their nest is disturbed, we return, survey the damage, and then without hesitation immediately get to work rebuilding. — Camron Wright

The natives used to tie their enemies to the tree. The ants would eat them alive. — Richard Paul Evans

If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them. — George R R Martin

eyes running over me like the work of a hundred biting ants — Ann Howard Creel

The immense profundity of thought in vulgar locutions, like holes dug by generations of ants. — Charles Baudelaire

Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence. — Munia Khan

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t. — Mitch Hedberg

Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants. — Nizar Qabbani

All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little. — Lafcadio Hearn

If you don't have doubts you're either kidding yourself or asleep. Doubts are the ants-in-the-pants of faith. They keep it alive and moving. — Frederick Buechner

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. — E. O. Wilson

What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns? — Alfred Lord Tennyson