Grasshoppers are insects of the suborder Caelifera in the order
Orthoptera, noted for their stout bodies and powerful legs with
which they are able to jump great distances. - Because half-a-
dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their
importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed
beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are
silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are
the only inhabitants of the field; that of course they are many
in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little
shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects
of the hour. - Fry: It's just like the story of the grasshopper
and the octopus. All year long, the grasshopper kept burying
acorns for winter, while the octopus mooched off his girlfriend
and watched TV. But then the winter came, and the grasshopper
died, and the octopus ate all his acorns. Also he got a race
car. Is any of this getting through to you? - Twere better far
That gods should quaff