Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Money just draws flies. — Mahalia Jackson
Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! — St. Jerome
Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the… — Jackie Kennedy
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. — Henri Matisse
There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive… — Baron de Montesquieu
Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children… — Mandy Moore
Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. — Liam Neeson
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. — Robert Orben
Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round… — Jean Paul
You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad… — Tom Petty
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. — Jackie Robinson
Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of… — Jonathan Sacks
I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while… — Martin Scorsese
And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and… — Jane Seymour
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. — William Shakespeare
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. — Laurence Sterne
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. — Jonathan Swift
Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they… — Ivan Turgenev
Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and… — Voltaire
I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be… — Voltaire
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' — Philip Zimbardo
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. — Vladimir Nabokov
Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. — Victor Hugo

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