“A wasp in a wig is altogether beyond the appliances of art.”
Refusing to illustrate a proposed chapter in Through the Looking-Glass, as quoted in The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll (1898), p. 146
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“Living by your wits is always knowing where the wasps are.”
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Karl Pilkington (1972) English television personality, social commentator, actor, author and former radio producer
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Source: A Child's Christmas in Wales
“Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.”
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Trip Hawkins (1953) American businessman
Quoted in The Amazing PlayStation 2, Newsweek (via PR Newswire), 2006-02-26, 2007-01-21 http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2000/0001150833&EDATE,