Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times,… — Dylan Moran
Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour… — Aulus Persius Flaccus
Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally… — Saint Augustine
Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. — Friedrich Nietzsche
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... — George Herbert
Time flies, and what is past is done. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. — Michel de Montaigne
Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings. — Dante Alighieri
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps… — John Donne
The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. — Jean Racine
Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial… — Christopher McDougall
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember… — Paul Nurse
I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past… — Meghan O'Rourke
Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. — Blaise Pascal
A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such… — Marc Racicot
I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool… — Shane Smith
Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle… — P.J. O'Rourke
O you proud Christians, wretched souls and small,/ Who by the dim lights of your twisted minds/ Believe you prosper even as you fall,/ Can… — Dante Alighieri
We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before… — Georg C. Lichtenberg
Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow… — Khalil Gibran
Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage! — L. Neil Smith
The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful… — Michael Azerrad

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