Best Wasps Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

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

Memories Childhood Sunlight Jars Childhood Memories Amber Wasps

Author:Amanda Harlech

“A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."”

Men Giving Humor Funny Walks Window Give Me Sells Shops Pet Wasps Shopkeepers

Author:Frank Carson

“'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.”

Way Facts Culture Social Term Class Groups Standing Tied Redneck Tied Up Wasps

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“Golf is the only opportunity that middle-aged WASPs have to dress up like a pimp.”

Opportunity Middle Dresses Golf Middle Aged Pimp Wasps

Author:Kinky Friedman

“The raven hatches its young; the fish spew forth their eggs; the slim-waisted wasp transforms, and when a younger brother comes along the elder brother weeps. For too long I have not been able to work in harmony with these changes. So, given that I did not play my part in harmony with others, how could I expect to change people?”

People Long Play Able Young Given Brother Harmony Fishes Eggs Elders Ravens Slim Younger Brother Wasps

Author:Zhuangzi

“The batsman's technique was like an old lady poking her umbrella at a wasp's nest.”

Technique Nests Umbrella Old Lady Wasps

Author:John Arlott

“It was enormously challenging because you want that all-American girl, but you also want the cool WASP, privileged white girl. Usually, women in that package aren't funny.”

Want Girl Challenges White Privileged Packages Wasps White Girl

Author:Jenji Kohan

“It may be annoying, but the rash of hijackings by Connecticut WASP girls surely explains the time-consuming - but still somehow completely useless - examination of my personal effects. We all have to make sacrifices for airline safety.”

May Stills Girl Sacrifice Effects Safety Useless Annoying Examination Consuming Airline Time Consuming Connecticut Wasps Hijacking

Author:Ann Coulter

“I guess we all feel like underdogs. I remember being a freshman at Brown University and not knowing what a WASP was. We were reading an Edward Albee play, and - it was just a moment of accepting, certainly that I wasn't very worldly, but also that a lot of the plays that I'd been reading, let's say other kinds of family plays, were speaking a foreign language.”

Feels Kind Play Moments Remember Reading Language Accepting Knowing University Brown Not Knowing Worldly Underdog Foreign Language Freshman Wasps Brown University

Author:Stephen Karam

“I always felt the Jewish part more. In fact, growing up I felt like a Jew among WASPs. My brother is more decidedly Waspy.”

Facts Felt Growing Up Growing Brother Jew My Brother Wasps

Author:Carrie Fisher

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

Stones Anger Casts Nests Wasps

Author:Pope Paul VI

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

Inspirational May Law Liberty Break Libertarian Libertarianism Simile Break Through Cobwebs Law And Justice Wasps Breaking The Law Hornets Law Breaking

Author:Jonathan Swift

“He's about as predictable as a Wasp on speed.”

Speed Predictable Wasps

Author:Sid Waddell

“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.”

Gone Concern Intellect Smell Composition Syllables Wasps Phantom Tollbooth

Author:Norton Juster

“I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.”

Has Beens Two Fall Our Lives Brother Woods Riding Ponds Donkey Wasps Two Brothers

Author:Jo Brand

“Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp; i' faith, you are too angry. Katherine: If I be waspish, best beware my sting. Petruchio: My remedy is then, to pluck it out. Katherine: Ay, if the fool could find where it lies. Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail. Katherine: In his tongue. Petruchio: Whose tongue? Katherine: Yours, if you talk of tails: and so farewell. Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail? Nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman.”

Ifs Knows Doe Lying Fool Angry Tongue Gentleman Remedy Tails Farewell Kate Pluck Wasps Taming Of The Shrew Shrews

Author:William Shakespeare

“It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss.”

Ifs Way Missing Track Range Elephants Troublesome Wasps

Book:The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

Source: The World's Last Night: And Other Essays

“Most people, when they imagine New England, think about old colonial homes, white houses with black shutters, whales, and sexually morbid WASPs with sensible vehicles and polite political opinions. This is incorrect. If you want to get New England right, just imagine a giant mullet in paint-stained pants and a Red Sox hat being pushed into the back of a cruiser after a bar fight.”

“As best I could make out, having never heard the term until I arrived in California, being a WASP meant being mossbacked, lockjawed, rigid, humorless, cold, charmless, insipid, less than penetratingly bright, but otherwise---and inexplicably---to be envied.”

Term Heard Cold California Envied Make Out Insipid Wasps

Book:An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness

“Silver nitrate and water in a super soaker," he told her. "My own invention. Ought to be good at twenty feet, kind of like wasp spray." Oh. "You get me the nicest things." "Anybody can get jewelry. Posers”

Kind Water My Own Feet Ought Twenties Be Good Invention Silver Jewelry Spray Morganville Vampires Claire Danvers Wasps Posers

Book:The Morganville Vampires:

Source: The Morganville Vampires:

“This man is the bee's knees, Arthur, he is the wasp's nipples. He is, I would go so far as to say, the entire set of erogenous zones of every major flying insect of the Western world.”

Men World Majors Western Flying Knees Zone Bees Insects Arthur Western World Nipples Wasps

Book:So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

Source: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish

“I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.”

Whole Mother Girl Dog Dangerous Bears Angry Extremes Ems Puppy Predator Puppy Dog Cubs Hives Licking Cranky Wasps

Author:James Patterson

“That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?” asked Slank. “Did a seagull tell you?” This brought chuckles from the crew. Something like that, thought Peter.”

Knows Black Ships Do You Know Peter Crew Captured Seagull Chuckles Wasps

Author:Dave Barry

“And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”

Book Wasps

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . .”

House Sound Train Deeds Dew Buzz Waterfalls Wasps

Book:100 Love Sonnets

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

“I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty”

Knows Needs Feels Two Hard Today Lasts Gone Please Towns Welcome Uncles Taxi Two Days Peaches Replacements Expeditions Giddy Monty Wasps Toothbrushes Peruvians

Author:Daniel Handler

“Scandal is an importunate wasp, against which we must make no movement unless we are quite sure that we can kill it; otherwise it will return to the attack more furious than ever.”

Literature Movement Return Scandal Furious Wasps Importunate

Author:Nicolas Chamfort

“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.”

People Inspirational Children Sleep Dog Fool Ought Kings Seven Tigers Awakened Serpent Small Child Wasps

Author:Chanakya

“Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.”

Anger Rage Annoying Picnics Wasps

Author:Gary Barlow

“I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it.”

People Feels Age Able Young Spirit Process Company Pity Perceive Gravity Resent Fourteen Reproach Often Is Lapses Wasps

Book:Autobiography of Mark Twain

Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain

“This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be. Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands. It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps. For other living creatures beyond ourselves.”

“If there is a rumor in the air about you, you'd better treat it as you would a wasp: either ignore it or kill it with the first blow. Anything else will just stir it up.”

Ifs Firsts Air Treats Blow Rumor Wasps

Author:James Alexander Thom

“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'.”

Feels Long Self Pain Spiritual Black Misery Tiny Trials Former Innocence Damn Abstract Melancholy Yellow Crave Assassins Self Indulgent Wasps Damn You

Book:Articles of Faith

Source: Articles of Faith

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

Eye Scared Cousin My Cousin Wasps

Author:Missy Elliot

“I'm half Jewish, but no one believes me because my looks lean a little WASP-y... It's sometimes hard for me to get the roles I'm drawn to.”

Believe Looks Littles Sometimes Hard Half Roles Believe In Me Wasps

Author:Armie Hammer

“At what point is a wasp ever going to have a chat with a spider?”

Spiders Wasps

Author:Karl Pilkington

“Spring rain leaking through the roof dripping from the wasps' nest.”

May Spring Rain Roof Nests Dripping Wasps Spring Rain

Author:Matsuo Basho

“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.”

Thinking God Body Atheism Evolution Garden Intention Species Feeding Natural Selection Agnosticism Omnipotent Caterpillars Theory Of Evolution Origin Of Species Wasps

Author:Charles Darwin

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

Firsts Turns Heritage Elsewhere Bees Offspring Wasps

Book:The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature

Source: The Passionate Observer: Writings from the World of Nature