It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
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An elephant can trumpet and shake the earth but not the self-possession of the ants who hold it.
Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.
william carlos williamsI don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.
karen blixenGive up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea
sarada deviIf we were created in God's image, then when God was a child he smushed fire ants with his fingertips and avoided tough questions.
buddy wakefieldThe fiercest serpent may be overcome by a swarm of ants.
isoroku yamamotoFifteen minutes out of Mexico City for Tokyo a passenger aboard a 747 screamed that he was being eaten by red-hot ants, and managed to open the emergency door at 23,000 feet. He had been to the washroom and drunk from the faucet there before takeoff. It was, after all, labeled DRINKING WATER.
john brunnerants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.
lewis thomasSpace can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and the stars themselves are scattered no more widely than the seed of Adam, even then we shall still be like ants crawling on the face of the Earth. The ants have covered the world, but have they conquered it for what do their countless colonies know of it, or of each other?
We see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
Francis BaconI never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.
Holly valanceants never sleep.
ralph waldo emersonIt is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?
Give up this dry discussion, this hodge-podge of philosophy. Who has been able to know God by reasoning? Even sages like Suka and Vyasa are at best like big ants trying to carry away a few grains of sugar from a large hea