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Quotes About Gnat

The effort of human thought has not been able to track down the essence of a single gnat.
~ Josef Pieper
Example is a dangerous lure: where the wasp got through the gnat sticks fast.
~ Jean de La Fontaine
Will you drink a glass of wine with me?' 'The gnat's piss they serve here?' smiled Geralt pleasantly. 'With the greatest revulsion. Well, but if you like it . . . then I'll force myself.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
That might be a bit of an exaggeration,' she said. 'I can really only knock the head off a gnat. We don't do eyeballs until fifth year.
~ John Flanagan
STREPSIADES. So the rear of a gnat is a trumpet. Oh! what a splendid discovery! Thrice happy Socrates! 'Twould not be difficult to succeed in a law-suit, knowing so much about the gut of a gnat!
~ Aristophanes
Every incident in the history of the world, whether it was the flight of a gnat or a great battle, revealed by the very fact of its occurrence the mystery that was inherent in it.
~ Franz Werfel
There was the faintest of sounds, as of a gnat yawning.
~ Terry Pratchett
Dream of yoking a gnat with an archangel, and then imagine that you can help your Lord in the work of salvation.
~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
What would you have done in the old days?' he asked. 'If you'd been piloting a gnat with this kind of damage?' 'Flown it back to a workshop in the Peerless for repairs.' 'And if you couldn't use the engines until the repairs were completed?' Tarquinia said, 'Then I'd call someone for a tow. See how a lifetime of experience has prepared me for this moment?
~ Greg Egan