Small Ant

Famous quotes containing the words small and/or ant:

“We must heap up a great pile of doing, for a small diameter of being.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.”
—Bible: Hebrew Proverbs, 6:6.

The words were rendered by Samuel Johnson in the opening lines of The Ant: “Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes, Observe her labours, sluggard, and be wise.”