House, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

Teaching a child not to step on a caterpillar is as valuable to the child as it is to the caterpillar. (Quote by - Bradley Millar)

Bullet Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. (Quote by - Tama Janowitz)

Some primal termite knocked on wood;and tasted it, and found it good.That is why your Cousin Mayfell through the parlor floor today. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)

We hope that, when the insects take over the world, they will remember with gratitude how we took them along on all our picnics. (Quote by - Bill Vaughan)

And what's a buterfly? At best,He's but a ceterpillar, drest. (Quote by - John Grey)

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. (Quote by - Martin H. Fischer)

Aerodynamically the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it, so it goes on flying anyway. (Quote by - Mary Kay Ash)

If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. (Quote by - Betty Reese)

A man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat. (Quote by - Don Marquis)

The pedigree of honey does not concern the bee, a clover, anytime, to him, is aristocracy. (Quote by - Emily Dickinson)

When the bee comes to your house, let her have beer; you may want to visit the bee's house some day. (Quote by - Congo Proverb)

That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)

As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. (Quote by - Franz Kafka)

Bullet Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths? (Quote by - George Eliot)

The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. (Quote by - Andy Warhol)

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. (Quote by - Tama Janowitz)

Bullet That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. (Quote by - D. H. Lawrence)

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. (Quote by - Mark Twain)

Cockroaches really put my all creatures great and smallcreed to the test. (Quote by - Astrid Alauda)

Butterflies not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. (Quote by - Elizabeth Goudge)

If you want to live and thrive, let the spider run alive. (Quote by - American Quaker)

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. (Quote by - Joseph W. Krutch )

Bullet Now what sort of man or woman or monster would stroke a centipede I have ever seen? And here is my good big centipede! If such a man exists, I say kill him without more ado. He is a traitor to the human race. (Quote by - William S. Burroughs)

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. (Quote by - Gerald Brenan)