Random Quotes about Spiders.

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

I've also seen this version:

“Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and the poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.”

—Anacharsis

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men.

—Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

—Alan Davies

“The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.”

—William Blake, (YES! William Blake!)

“The means to gain happiness is to throw out from oneself like a spider in all directions an adhesive web of love, and to catch in it all that comes.”

—Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

“When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion.”

—Ethiopian Proverb

Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of the government.

—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Our souls sit close and silently within, And their own webs from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch.

—John Dryden

“I have drunk, and seen the spider.”

—William Shakespeare

“In the spider-web of facts, many a truth is strangled.”

—Paul Eldridge

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

—Henry James

“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible.”

—Virginia Woolf

“The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Feels at each thread, and lives along the line.”

—Alexander Pope

“Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider's web. (Job 8:14)”

—The Bible

“Touch but a cobweb in Westminster Hall, and the old spider of the law is out upon you with all his vermin at his heels.”

—Henry Fox

“It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel.”

—John Keats

“Any act often repeated soon forms a habit; and habit allowed, steady gains in strength, At first it may be but as a spider's web, easily broken through, but if not resisted it soon binds us with chains of steel.”

—Tryon Edwards

“The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.”

— Edwin Way Teale

“With great power comes great responsibility.”

Spider Man's mantra.