Félix Archimède Pouchet Quote

Among insects, there are architects, masons, upholsterers, paper-makers, joiners, pasteboard-makers, and hydraulic-engineers. Others dislike work, and are veritable pirates, always engaged in war and pillage.


The Universe: Or, The Infinitely Great and the Infinitely Little, Book III (p. 93), Blackie & Son. 1870


Among insects, there are architects, masons, upholsterers, paper-makers, joiners, pasteboard-makers, and hydraulic-engineers. Others dislike work,...

Among insects, there are architects, masons, upholsterers, paper-makers, joiners, pasteboard-makers, and hydraulic-engineers. Others dislike work,...

Among insects, there are architects, masons, upholsterers, paper-makers, joiners, pasteboard-makers, and hydraulic-engineers. Others dislike work,...

Among insects, there are architects, masons, upholsterers, paper-makers, joiners, pasteboard-makers, and hydraulic-engineers. Others dislike work,...