A Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer

Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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Any Beetle Boy Cannot Foolish Make Professors Stamp World

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Arthur Schopenhauer
German - Philosopher
February 22, 1788 - September 21, 1860

I found a little beetle, so that beetle was his name

A. A. Milne

A beetle may or may not be inferior to a man - the matter awaits demonstration; but if he were inferior by ten thousand fathoms, the fact remains that there is probably a beetle view of things of which a man is entirely ignorant. If he wishes to conceive that point of view, he will scarcely reach it by persistently revelling in the fact that he is not a beetle.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.

Karl Pilkington

SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact that God knew why giving it its peculiar sanctity. Its habit of incubating its eggs in a ball of ordure may also have commended it to the favor of the priesthood, and may some day assure it an equal reverence among ourselves. True, the American beetle is an inferior beetle, but the American priest is an inferior priest.

Ambrose Bierce

We have not yet encountered any god who is as merciful as a man who flicks a beetle over on its feet.

Annie Dillard

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony, or any other great work of art.

E. O. Wilson

I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.

Jim Crace

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!

Eva Green

I've had 72 absolutely flaming years. It (the illness) doesn't bother me at all, because, you know, love, when you've lived like I have, you've done it all. I put all my effort into living; any dope can drop dead. I'm in the hospital now, and I guess I'll kick the bucket here. Every beetle does it, every bird, everybody. You come into the world and then you go.

Vali Myers

I liked the old comic books, especially the funny ones like 'Popeye' and 'Beetle Bailey.'

Ruskin Bond

On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair. And many a foolish young beetle's impressed By the blue gauze gown in which she is dressed; They admire the enamel that decks her bright, And her elegant waist so slim and slight.

Heinrich Heine

Our faculties are more fitted to recognize the wonderful structure of a beetle than a Universe.

Charles Darwin

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.