Quotes About Spiders Webs

#1. The laws are like spiders' webs: just as spiders' webs catch the weaker creatures but let the stronger ones through, so the humble and poor are restricted by the laws, but the rich and powerful are not bound by them (Valerius Maximus Memorable Deeds and Sayings 7.2 ext. 14).

J.C. McKeown

#2. Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily break through them.

Anacharsis

#3. Given the nature of spiders, webs are inevitable. And given the nature of human beings, so are religions. Spiders can't help making fly-traps, and men can't help making symbols. That's what the human brain is there for - the turn the chaos of given experience into a set of manageable symbols.

Aldous Huxley

#4. Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

Solon

#6. There could be talking bunny rabbits, spiders who write English messages in their webs, and for that matter, melancholy choo-choo trains. There could be, I suppose, but there aren't-so my theory doesn't have to explain them.

Daniel Dennett

#7. Babies are born with the instinct to speak, the way spiders are born with the instinct to spin webs. You don't need to train babies to speak; they just do. But reading is different.

Steven Pinker

#8. Spiders evidently as surprised by the weather as the rest of us: their webs were still everywhere - little silken laundry lines with perfect snowflakes hung out in rows to dry.

Leslie Land

#9. Most spiders eat and remake their webs every night.

Alice Oswald

#10. Owing your style sometimes takes effort, and it's okay to expend effort on how you look

Sophia Amoruso

#11. She had been dying so long that I had almost come to regard her as immortal.

Thomas Nelson Page

#12. That tower of strength Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#13. If the whole world should agree to speak nothing but truth, what an abridgment it would make of speech! And what an unravelling there would be of the invisible webs which men, like so many spiders, now weave about each other!

Washington Allston

#14. Coming to the Bible through commentaries is much like looking at a landscape through garret windows, over which generations of unmolested spiders have spun their webs.

Henry Ward Beecher

#15. Cause silence isn't golden
When I'm holding it inside

Axl Rose

#16. When you use a dialect, you worry that the people you're imitating will think you're making fun of them.

Jack Nicholson

#17. I make American films for American audiences and Asian films for Asian audiences.

Jackie Chan

#18. The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones.

Dean Koontz

#19. Why do you paint, Nona?"...

'I paint first to honor God who paints the sunsets and oceans and human hearts. And second, I paint so I don't get cranky like so many of the old people in this world.

Kimberly Stuart

#20. If you have the experience, why do you need the words?

Marty Rubin

#21. The best thing in every noble dream is the dreamer ...

Moncure D. Conway

#22. I think the facts leave no doubt that the very mightiest among the chemical forces are of electric origin. The atoms cling to their electric charges, and opposite electric charges cling to each other.

Hermann Von Helmholtz

#23. I'd worry about your chaperone. She's trapped, like a spider caught in a web."
"Spiders make webs," I said. "They don't get caught in them."
"I meant a fly," Stew growled.
"How in the world would a spider get caught in a fly?

Lemony Snicket

#24. Spiders will build their webs no matter how many laws you pass against it.

Marty Rubin

#25. There was an inexhaustible source of clouds in some land far to the north. Decisive people, minds fixed on the task, clothed in thick, gray uniforms, working silently from morning to night to make clouds, like bees make honey, spiders make webs, and war makes widows.

Haruki Murakami

#26. Faced with what seems like an impossible task, a group of folks will do well to remember the African proverb: When spider webs unite they can tie up a lion.

Johnnetta B. Cole

#27. At Highgarden we have many spiders amongst the flowers. So long as they keep to themselves we let them
spin their little webs, but if they get underfoot we step on them.

George R R Martin

#28. Men are under as strong a compulsion to invent an ethical setting for their behavior as spiders are to weave themselves webs.

John Dos Passos

#29. Laws are like spider's webs: If some poor weak creature comes up against them, it is caught; but a big one can break through and get away.

Solon