Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

Where there are humans, You'll find flies, And Buddhas. — Kobayashi Issa
Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. — Umberto Eco
He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise. — William Blake
The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. — Craig Clevenger
Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. — William Shakespeare
There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus. — Hunter S. Thompson
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. — J.R.R. Tolkien
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the… — Ray Bradbury
It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a… — Gabrielle Zevin
Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle… — Diane Setterfield
I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the… — Shannon Hale
God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. — Sylvia Plath
but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl… — Vladimir Nabokov
Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson — Lynda Barry
Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard… — Terry Pratchett
In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. — Leif Enger
Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day,… — Thornton Wilder
And see she flies, and she is everywhere. — Nick Drake
Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use… — Stephen Sondheim
I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is… — Merrill Markoe
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. — Bertrand Russell
There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that… — Herman Melville
You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's… — Elwyn Brooks White
It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very… — Charles Dickens

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