15 Wasps Quotes for You to Enjoy

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Jonathan Swift

Legal Laws Small Through Catch Like May Break Which Flies Cobweb Wasps

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

God Myself Living Omnipotent Beneficent Would Parasitic Feeding Within Intention Cannot Created Bodies Persuade Express Wasps

I grew up in poverty on the edge of a golf course. I saw how people lived on the other side of the tracks, the upper crust and the WASPs at the country club. We had chickens and pigs in our yards. We butchered every year. I'll never forget those things. Arnold Palmer

People Poverty Country Edge Year Club Every Other Side Our Saw Those Never Had Never Forget Country Club Crust Course Tracks Pigs Yards How Up Chickens Forget Upper Grew Golf Golf Course Lived Wasps Things

I am very scared of wasps; my cousin was stung in the eye once. Missy Elliott

Once Eye Scared Stung Am Cousin Very Wasps

Actually, I have this random fear, and it's of bees and wasps. Bees and wasps actually scare me just a little bit. I'd rather have a snake or a crocodile, yes... I appreciate them, and I love them, but I have a slight fear. Bindi Irwin

The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The human species imagined money into existence, and it exists - for us, not mice or wasps - because we go on believing in it. Eliezer Yudkowsky

You Money Honey Market Market Economy Born Economy Because Go Bees Existence Exists Sell Mice Offer Human Transfer Them Us Electronic Human Species Wasps Species Believing Funds Imagined

Given the right information to help them decide, people will opt for conditions that benefit our creaturely neighbours, even where they have no particular interest in larks or cuckoo wasps - because those conditions benefit us. John Burnside

On the evidence we have, the meritocratic ideal ends up being just as undemocratic as the old emphasis on inheritance and tradition, and it forges an elite that has an aristocracy's vices (privilege, insularity, arrogance) without the sense of duty, self-restraint and noblesse oblige that WASPs at their best displayed. Ross Douthat

Best Arrogance Old Duty Sense Evidence Oblige Aristocracy Emphasis Ideal Without Tradition Self-Restraint Up Privilege Just Being Ends Vices Inheritance Displayed Wasps Elite

My earliest childhood memory is watching the sunlight through a jar of amber full of wasps. Amanda Harlech

Memory Sunlight Through Amber Childhood Jar Full Wasps Earliest Watching

Webs are made mostly of spaces. They break easily. They barely exist. They belong to the category of half-things: mist, smoke, shrouds, ghosts, membranes, retinas or rags; and they quickly fill up with un-things: old legs and wings and heads and hollow abdomens and body bags of wasps. Alice Oswald

Old Made Ghosts Easily Web Wings Bags Heads Category Mist Mostly Smoke Exist Up Quickly Legs Break Spaces Hollow Barely Body Fill Rags Wasps Belong

The history of American higher education over the twentieth century is an extraordinary one, the story of the creation of a powerhouse set of institutions that are the envy of the civilized world. Once they were the province, both among the student and faculty bodies, of children of privilege, generally WASPs. Rick Perlstein

Education History World Envy Higher Education Creation Extraordinary Once Both Civilized Civilized World Higher Student Generally Faculty Over Institutions Powerhouse Were Province Privilege American The History Of Children Story Century Bodies Twentieth Twentieth Century Wasps Among Set

I hate to admit this, but I've never actually hit anyone. I don't even kill wasps or spiders. I'm pretty veggie as well. In fact, really, I'm New Age. Richard Desmond

Age Hate Spiders Pretty Admit Fact Never New New Age Well Hit In Fact Anyone Really Even Wasps Actually

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas. Alice Weaver Flaherty

Skin Head Like Ideas Going Mania Explode Wasps