How blinde is pride! what eagles we are still In matters that belong to other men, What beetles in our own! George Chapman
There's always the dinner rolls," said Will, pointing to a covered basket. "Though I warn you, they're as hard as stones. You could use them to kill black beetles, if any beetles bother you in the middle of the night. Cassandra Clare
An inordinate fondness for beetles. J. B. S. Haldane
When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ... they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle. Dr. Seuss
Beetles that roll balls out of human faeces demand to be hidden away from the rich man, because there is nothing he wouldn't buy. Nigerian Proverb
One cannot go back to the farmer from whom one borrowed seed-yams to plant to say that the beetles have eaten up the seed-yams. Nigerian Proverb