O, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive. [ Sir Walter Scott, Marmion ]

It is hard to make a good web of a bottle of hay. [ Proverb ]

This day we fashion destiny, our web of fate we spin. [ Whittier ]

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. [ William Shakespeare ]

All our life goeth like Penelope's web, - what one hour effects the next destroys. [ St. Augustine ]

Beauty has no lustre except when it gleams through the crystal web that purity's fine fingers weave for it. [ Maturin ]

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Our souls sit close and silently within. And their own web from their own entrails spin; And when eyes meet far off, our sense is such, That, spider-like, we feel the tenderest touch. [ Dryden ]

The most influential books, and the truest in their influence, are works of fiction. They repeat, they re-arrange, they clarify the lessons of life; they disengage us from ourselves, they constrain us to the acquaintance of others; and they show us the web of experience, but with a singular change - that monstrous, consuming ego of ours being, nonce, struck out. [ Robert Louis Stevenson ]