#wasp

Let us turn elsewhere, to the wasps and bees, who unquestionably come first in the laying up of a heritage for their offspring. ↗

— Jean Henri Fabre

#come #elsewhere #first #heritage #laying

I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#brought #crutches #death #east #east side

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'. ↗

— Russell Brand

#faith #pain #russell-brand #wasps #faith

The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep. ↗

— Chanakya

#child #dog #fool #king #other

He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed. ↗

— Sid Waddell

#predictable #speed #wasp

'WASP' is the only ethnic term that is in fact a term of class, apart from redneck, which is another word for the same group but who are in the lower social strata, so it's inexplicably tied up with social standing and culture and history in a way that the other hyphenations just are not. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#apart #class #culture #ethnic #fact

Because his basic idea that he got from the study of gall wasps is that everyone's sexuality is unique. ↗

— Bill Condon

#basic idea #because #everyone #gall #got

Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ↗

— Pope Paul VI

#cast #into #nest #stone #wasp

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

— Jonathan Swift

#catch #cobwebs #flies #laws #like

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