Flies Quotes

523 quotes by 448 authors

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. — Honore de Balzac
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
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
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
A closed mouth catches no flies. — Miguel de Cervantes
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. — Yasser Arafat
Time flies when you are anxious! — Maria Bamford
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
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
In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. — Hannah More
Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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
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
Do what we can, summer will have its flies. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
'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
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
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
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
Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still. — Oscar Wilde
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

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