cobweb quotes

Learning, that cobweb of the brain, Profane, erroneous, and vain.

- Samuel Butler
  Hudibras, pt.1, canto 3, l.1339^40.

Then the law to him Is like a foul black cobweb to a spider; He makes it his dwelling, and a prison To entangle those shall feed him.

-John Webster
  The Duchess of Malfi, act1, sc.1.