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Both parents passed away of the Gnats on their farm out in the wilds, sir, and he was raised by peas.' 'Surely you mean on peas, Mr Groat?' 'By peas, sir" -- Terry Pratchett
What gnats are compared with humans, so is the whole creation compared with God. -- Saint John Chrysostom
I think we have the attention span of a gnat. You know, with cell phones and Twitter. -- Jeff Daniels
When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport, But creep in crannies when he hides his beams. -- William Shakespeare
We must understand how to hide in darkness in order to escape the gnat-swarms of utterly annoying admirers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
From the way Denny's shaking his head, he's either got an injured shoulder or a gnat in his eye. -- Jerry Coleman
Towards gnats and fleas we should show no pity. We would do right to hang petty thieves, petty calumniators, and slanderers. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. -- John Donne
With the single exception of Park Lane, every north-south route in London slows traffic to the pace of a wounded gnat with pleurisy struggling with a squaddie's backpack. -- Michael Gove
There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. -- C. S. Lewis
And what's romance? Usually, a nice little tale where you have everything As You Like It, where rain never wets your jacket and gnats never bite your nose and it's always daisy-time. -- D. H. Lawrence
Can you walk on water? You have done no better than a straw. Can you fly through the air? You are no better than a gnat. Conquer your heart-then you may become somebody. -- Khwaja Abdullah Ansari
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart. -- Fred Allen
Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes- all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them. -- John Muir
Splitting the atom is like trying to shoot a gnat in the Albert Hall at night and using ten million rounds of ammunition on the off chance of getting it. That should convince you that the atom will always be a sink of energy and never a reservoir of energy. -- Ernest Rutherford
If we may credit certain hints contained in the lives of the saints, love raises the spirit above the sphere of reverence and worship into one of laughter and dalliance: a sphere in which the soul says: 'Shall I, a gnat which dances in Thy ray, Dare to be reverent?' -- Coventry Patmore
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
What's the use of their having names the Gnat said, 'if they won't answer to them?' 'No use to them,' said Alice; 'but it's useful to the people who name them, I suppose. If not, why do things have names at all?' 'I can't say,' the Gnat replied. -- Lewis Carroll
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates, superprimate humans, the lot. I can say this because we do not know what we are talking about: consciousness is so much a total mystery for our own species that we cannot begin to guess about its existence in others. -- Lewis Thomas
Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. -- Victor Hugo
Straining at gnats and swallowing camels is a required course in all law schools. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Other people write about the bling and the booty. I write about the pus and the gnats. To me, that's beautiful. -- Vic Chesnutt
You and I and everyone else have the attention span of gnats. And that means that saying or doing anything once simply doesn't work. -- Gene Simmons

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