• Swords and lances, arrows, machine guns, and even high explosives
  have had far less power over the fates of nations than the Typhus louse,
  the Plague flea, and the Yellow Fever Mosquito   
  (Hans Zinsser in Rats, Lice, and History)

• Plea to a mosquito:
  Pray transfer your air attack
  To my husband's slothful back
  Puncture him with malice keen
  Then perhaps he'll fix that screen!        
  (Helen Gorn Sutin)

• Ode to Mosquito Men
  They sprayed and sprayed till their eyes got sore
  Then they refilled their machines and sprayed some more.

They worked most of the whole night through.
Killing mosquitoes for me and for you.

Their labors resulted in great success.
Of every one hundred mosquitoes, there were ninety-nine less.

But they were mocked and they were scorned,
Their heads with criticism were adorned.

What could be the problem then?
That That such reward befell these men?

This answer is simple as numbers can be.
And the calculations reveal for all to see.

That if ninety-nine percent of one billion are slain.
Ten million of the devils still remain.                            
(unknown)

• Quote on Louisiana mosquitoes
  two could whip a dog and four could hold down a man  
  (Mark Twain)

• Even a mosquito doesn't get a slap on the back until it starts to work.

• I wish that Noah had swatted those two mosquitoes.

• Mosquito Bites: by Ivan Itch

• What this country needs is a vegetarian mosquito.

• The mosquito in the nudist camp -
  frustrated out of her mind, because she didn't know where to start
  (Jim Harris)