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Cockroaches

«Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.»
«AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.»
«I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of horses.»
«There is nothing so despicable as a secret society that is based upon religious prejudice and that will attempt to defeat a man because of his religious beliefs. Such a society is like a cockroach -- it thrives in the dark. So do those who combine for such an end.»
«If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.»
«Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.»
«I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.»
«HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe. _House of Correction_, a place of reward for political and personal service, and for the detention of offenders and appropriations. _House of God_, a building with a steeple and a mortgage on it. _House-dog_, a pestilent beast kept on domestic premises to insult persons passing by and appal the hardy visitor. _House-maid_, a youngerly person of the opposing sex employed to be variously disagreeable and ingeniously unclean in the station in which it has pleased God to place her.»
«In South Florida, we have industrial cockroaches that have to be equipped with loud warning beepers so you can get out of their way when they back up.»
«How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh»