Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

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… — Unknown Author
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
A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the… — Roy Bean
The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of… — Robert Adams
...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'. — H.G. Wells
If the world goes crazy for a lovely fossil, that's fine with me. But if that fossil releases some kind of mysterious brain ray that… — Carl Zimmer
A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him,… — Khalil Gibran
To each his suff'rings; all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan,- The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should… — Thomas Gray
Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. — Unknown Author
Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could… — K. Eric Drexler
The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. — Richard Bach
Someone once told me that children are like kites. You struggle just to get them in the air; they crash; you add a longer tail.… — Unknown Author

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