Both the cockroach and proverb

 Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
  Joseph Wood Krutch

 If I had had to choose between him and a cockroach as a companion for a walking-tour, the cockroach would have had it by a short head.
  P. G. Wodehouse

 I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.
  Madonna

 This cockroach is now at the top of the tree, while the worm is still on the ground.

 If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

 If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach.

 AOL is like the cockroach left after the nuclear bomb hits. They know how to survive.

 The cockroach is a part of our logo. It's our mascot. Cockroaches endure.

 How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Isn't it only natural to leave a place where one is so bitterly hated?...The heroism involved in staying put in spite of it all is the heroism of a cockroach, which also won't be driven out of the bathroom.
  Franz Kafka

 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.
  William Howard Taft

 I was having trouble with my jump serve, so I went back to the float serve I learned from Brian (Beckwith). It seemed to work for me. I like to call it the 'Hissing Cockroach,' courtesy of Brian Beckwith.

 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.
  Ambrose Bierce

 When you see a bird, look at it carefully. Don't go to a field guide looking for a rare or unusual bird. It's most likely to be a common bird to the area.

 He's not going to do that, and we don't miss him, by the way. And if you go out there and ask any one of my players or staff members, we don't miss him. We don't miss the attitude; we don't miss the whining. We don't miss it. Good riddance. See you later.


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