ant quotes

Those who have handled scienceshave been either men of experiment or men of dogmas. The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use; thereasonersresemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance.But the bee takes a middle course; it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests by a power of its own. Not unlike this is the true business of philosophy.

- Francis,Viscount St Albans Bacon
  Novum Organum bk.1, aphorism 95.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 6:6.

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace.

- Ezra Loomis Pound
  The Pisan Cantos, no.81.