“I have failed in finding parasites in mosquitoes fed on malaria patients, but perhaps I am not using the proper kind of mosquito.”
Ronald Ross
“Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.”
William S. Burroughs
“I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.”
Charles Darwin
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labour of the industrious.”
Thomas Jefferson
“The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.”
Joseph Priestley
“The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism.”
Arthur Schopenhauer