Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies. — Rodney Dangerfield
I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year,… — Neneh Cherry
One of my many horrors is to become the man with the frayed jacket and unfastened flies standing at the Co-op counter with egg on… — Per Petterson
If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies. — Jessica Raine
The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by… — Nadine Gordimer
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,… — Charles Baudelaire
Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. — Jonathan Swift
Carbon dioxide is natural. It occurs in Earth. It is a part of the regular lifecycle of Earth. In fact, life on planet Earth can’t… — Michele Bachmann
Why, lies are like a sticky juice overspreading the world, a living, growing flypaper to catch and gum the wings of every human soul. .… — John Dos Passos
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon… — Viktor Schauberger
This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know… — Seth Godin
We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. — Gautama Buddha
Whatever thought grips the mind at the time of death is the one which will propel it and decide for it the nature of its… — Stephen Mitchell
Where is the soul? . . . I refuse to believe anything of that kind without proof. The idea that, as soon as a man's… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We've got some guys going good and we've got some guys who are struggling. Usually April's a tough month. Guys come from Arizona where the… — Unknown Author
If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office. — E. W. Howe
From the glow of enthusiasm I let the melody escape. I pursue it. Breathless I catch up with it. It flies again, it disappears, it… — Ludwig van Beethoven
Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic
We come to the New Testament, where again a host of imperative verbs is mustered in support of that miserable bondage of free-choice, and the… — Martin Luther
Time flies when you’re being stupid. — David Henry Hwang
The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads… — Max Stirner
As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,… — Jean Baudrillard
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. — William H. Gass
The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction… — Stephen Jay Gould
But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind. — William Shakespeare

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