(67 quotes found)
“An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.”
Lao Tzu
“It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?”
Henry David Thoreau
“Be on the alert, like the red ant that moves with its claws wide open. Uganda”
African Proverb
“The ant is knowing and wise, but he doesn't know enough to take a vacation”
Clarence Day
“An ant may well destroy a whole dam.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest”
Bible
“When I was five years old I saw an insect that had been eaten by ants and of which nothing remained except the shell. Through the holes in its anatomy one could see the sky. Every time I wish to attain purity I look at the sky through flesh.”
Salvador Dalí
“Be humble as the blade of grass that is being trodden underneath the feet. The little ant tastes joyously the sweetness of honey and sugar. The mighty elephant trembles in pain under the agony of sharp goad.”
John Ruskin
“I got an ant farm. Them fellas didn't grow sh*t.”
Mitch Hedberg
“A little water is a sea to an ant”
Afghan Proverb
