Quotes on Spiders

"The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line." — Alexander Pope
"Is there anything in the universe more beautiful and protective than the simple complexity of a spider's web?" — E.B. White
"Spiders are always big in the autumn: they've had all summer to grow." — Alice Roberts

"Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly." — Charles Addams
"Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them." — Anacharsis
"I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow." — Voltaire

"The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web." — Pablo Picasso
"Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground." — Frank Lloyd Wright

"I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything—diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me." — Taylor Swift
"It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!" — Nicole Kidman
"Sometimes it looks like I'm dancing, but it's just that I walked into a spider web." — Demetri Martin

"The mind cannot support moral chaos for long. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs." — John Dos Passos
"The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven. Human affairs are like a spider's web: if you touch it, it tears apart." — John Vianney
"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught." — Honore de Balzac

"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together." — William Shakespeare
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive." — Walter Scott
"The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web." — Edwin Way Teale

"In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal." — Saint Teresa of Avila
"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." — John Locke

"May your rivers flow without end, meandering through pastoral valleys tinkling with bells, past temples and castles and poets' towers into a dark primeval forest where tigers belch and monkeys howl." — Edward Abbey

Nature and Serenity