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Welcome to my page of quotations about mosquitos. These horrid creatures love feasting on me but for some reason rarely go near my husband. 🤔 Here in Phoenix, we used to get a break from them during the winter, but now they're year-round. Shudder!  —ღ Terri


MOSQUITO  A small insect designed by God to make us think better of flies. ~Charles Wayland Towne, The Foolish Dictionary, Executed by Gideon Wurdz, Master of Pholly, Doctor of Loquacious Lunacy, etc., 1904


Among the diseases caused by the mosquito, insomnia... should not be omitted. ~"Poor Richard Junior's Philosophy," The Saturday Evening Post, 1903, George Horace Lorimer, editor


We all have sympathy for the man who in desperation exclaimed: "Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes when he had the chance!" ~W. A. Poovey, Faith is the Password, 1979


The MOSQUITO... bites the 1st time as sharp and natural as red pepper does. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague & T. Guillemets


He presented his bill,
      And I could not evade it.
In valley, on hill,
He presented his bill,
With stinging ill-will;
      So with blood, sir, I paid it.
He presented his bill,
      And I could not evade it.
~Aristine Anderson, 1888  [titled in various publications "The Poet in New Jersey" or "A Mosquito Triolet" —tg]


We are taught that nothing in this world was made in vain, that all God's handiwork was intended for a good and great purpose, but scientific men have failed to this date to calculate what a mosquito was made for, unless it was to keep folks awake at night and give their miserable old threadbare consciences time and opportunity to get in its dreadful work. The mosquito has been an inhabitant of this old world since the dawn of creation. I'm reliably informed that they gave the old man Adam the old lady Eve and the entire family a pretty lively time and I guess they will hang around till business closes down on the last day. I have figured it out they must constitute one of the luxuries of life, for they certainly don't come under the head of necessities. ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague


You know what's probably a good thing to hang on your porch in the summertime, to keep mosquitos away from you and your guests? Just a big bag full of blood. ~Jack Handey, Deepest Thoughts: So Deep They Squeak, 1994, deepthoughtsbyjackhandey.com


It is not how busy you are, but why you are busy — the bee is praised, the mosquito is swatted. ~Author unknown, c.1952


Unfortunately, it was in the musty thickness where mosquitoes thrive like backstreet thugs. ~Craig Childs, Crossing Paths: Uncommon Encounters with Animals in the Wild, 1997


If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. ~Anita Roddick, c.1993  [barrypopik.com]


Mosquito, Mosquito,
I feel you upon me,
You're biting me everywhere;
Each time that you sting me
Sensations you bring me,
You bite, but you don't seem to care;
My carcass I'm scratching
While eggs you are hatching
To bring new disturbers to town.
You don't hurt, Mosquito,
When you light upon me,
But, oh baby, when you sit down!
~"Marcheta: A Parody," in The "Wrecks" (An Anthology of Ribald Verse Collected at Reno), c.1933


This is a dickens of a place to spend the summer. We'll be eaten up here. The mosquitoes are mobilizing for a grand drive... S—lap! There's one. All around we could hear bzzzzzzz, bzzzzz... S—lap! There goes another. It was our lives against theirs. After a terrible massacre we got most of them out of the car. Then we sat down to talk. It was quite late in the afternoon and we were getting hungry. The mosquitoes had finished their supper. I hope they enjoyed it. ~Percy Keese Fitzhugh, Roy Blakeley: Lost, Strayed or Stolen, 1921  [a little altered —tg]


Campers:  Nature's way of feeding mosquitoes. ~Author unknown


If Monday were an animal, it would be a mosquito. ~Keith Wynn, @ravenrhapsodies, tweet, 2017


The local density of mosquitos is inversely proportional to your remaining repellent. ~Barber's Law #11 of Backpacking, in 1,001 Logical Laws, Accurate Axioms, Profound Principles, Trusty Truisms, Homey Hommilies, Colorful Corollaries, Quotable Quotes, and Rambunctious Ruminations for all walks of life, compiled by John Peers, edited by Gordon Bennett, 1979


The mosquito is the state bird of New Jersey. ~Joke, 1970s  [This has been said of Oregon (c.1975, in an attempt to keep people from moving there), c.1978 of New Jersey, by an entomologist and also attributed to Andy Warhol, c.1994 of Minnesota, c.1999 of Alaska, and c.2006 of Florida. —tg]


I hate mosquitoes. I mean, I know I'm delicious but dang! ~Author unknown


Busier than a Mosquito at a Nudist Colony  ~Internet meme


A tent is warranted to keep out the fresh air, but is always open for the entertainment of fieldmice, June bugs, mosquitoes, and black flies... ~Gideon Wurdz (Charles Wayland Towne), "Camping," Eediotic Etiquette, 1906


Insects are attractive things and very human, or perhaps we men and women are like bugs. I have known dragon flies, swift-motioned, gleaming; and hornets, unbeautiful but effective; some people are like honeybees, engaged in sweet unselfish labors, while others are crickets that only chirp; some are butterflies, flashing in the pure light, while others are noisome, creeping things that lurk in dank shadows. Some persons are fireflies, lighting up dark places for others, while there are those who are house flies, inquisitive, annoying, noxious... Yet there isn't anybody who isn't interesting, and so there is no bug that doesn't repay you for studying it. I wonder what insect I am like?— my family would doubtless say a mosquito. ~Dorothy Scarborough, "Entomology on a Country Porch," From a Southern Porch, 1919


The doubt, like the mosquito, buzzes round my faith. ~Emily Dickinson, 1861


I have yet to see the first man who would acknowledge that he was the friend of a BED  BUG. A chinch is the most low down, meanest, sneakenest, crawling, creeping, hopping, biting thing that infests this old earth. They don't dare tackle a man in broad daylight but sneak in after dark, and chaw him up while he's fast asleep. Now, a mosquito will fight you to a finish in broad daylight, at short range and give you a chance to knock back — allow you a kind of a free ballot and a fair count... but a bed bug... waits till the dead hour of night... If I were in the habit of indulging in Sunday School expressions, I wouldn't hesitate to cuss a bed bug to a standstill right to his face... ~Josh Billings, revised by H. Montague & T. Guillemets

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