Imported Fire Ants

Famous quotes containing the words imported, fire and/or ants:

    If the jests that you crack have an orthodox smack,
    You may get a bland smile from these sages;
    But should it, by chance, be imported from France,
    Half-a-crown is stopped out of your wages!
    Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    Nature always wears the colors of the spirit. To a man laboring under calamity, the heat of his own fire hath sadness in it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    this ant-and stone-swallowing uninjurable
    artichoke which simpletons thought a living fable
    whom the stones had nourished, whereas ants had done
    so.
    Marianne Moore (1887–1972)