Flies Quotes

523 quotes by 442 authors

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. — George William Russell
Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies. — Jules Renard
Your purpose is to act on the resources God gives you. If God gives you a bucket of fish, you have to distribute those fish.… — Russell Simmons
Try stuff. I also used to believe that it's better to be smart than lucky because if you're smart you can out-think the competition. I… — Guy Kawasaki
There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most… — Francis Bacon
But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. — Aristotle
Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. — Anatole France
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. — Richard Dawkins
Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. — Luc de Clapiers
Banish (the onion) from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Its presence lends color and enchantment to the most modest dish; its absence… — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which… — Philip K. Dick
I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams. — Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies. — Martin Luther
On who the flies landed without being chased away by that person, was on her way to death - this was one of the unmistakeable… — Jeroen Brouwers
The heart, in its journey to Allah, Majestic is He, is like that of a bird; Love is its head, and fear and hope are… — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. — Friedrich Schiller
Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. — Elizabeth Robins Pennell
No, not really. I mean, at the end of the day, it's just a part. You just go into it, and like your life, you're… — Robert Pattinson
The more you know, the more unflinchingly you deny casual beliefs and Accepted Wisdom when it flies in the face of reality, the more carefully… — Harlan Ellison
Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. — Doc Holliday

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