Flies Quotes
523 quotes by 448 authors
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Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
— Honore de Balzac
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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun…
— William Blake
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I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He…
— Mark Burnett
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Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be…
— Mariah Carey
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
— Yasser Arafat
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Time flies when you are anxious!
— Maria Bamford
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The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is…
— Juvenal
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The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash.
— Graig Nettles
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In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.
— Hannah More
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Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away.
— Tommy Lasorda
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Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a…
— Charles Saatchi
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies; runs with one, walks gravely with another; turns a third into ice, and sets a…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies…
— Andre Sainte-Lague
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Just as a little bird cracks open the shell and flies out, we fly out of this shell, the shell of the body. We call…
— Swami Satchidananda
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O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my…
— William Shakespeare
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Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still.
— Oscar Wilde
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Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.
— Groucho Marx
Who Wrote These Flies Quotes
448 authors contributed a total of 523 Flies Quotes, led by these top contributors: