Flies Quotes

523 Flies quotes by 428 unique authors

It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even… — Lance Burton
When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay… — Stephanie Beacham
My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a… — Ben Affleck
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls… — Lynne Cheney
You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around… — Bob Dylan
I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs. — Marilyn Manson
Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies. — Billy Squier
The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a… — Lou Reed
I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get… — Jeffrey Combs
Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. — Ray Davies
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise… — George Orwell
Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there’s music in us. Hope is pushed down… — Jack Gilbert
Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies… — Ogden Nash
A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and… — James Hunter
I leave to children exclusively, but only for the life of their childhood, all and every the dandelions of the fields and the daisies thereof,… — Williston Fish
A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. — Nicolas Chamfort
If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. — Douglas William Jerrold
That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial
When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open… — Winston Churchill
Life is short - while we speak it flies; enjoy, then, the present, and forget the future; such is the moral of ancient poetry, a… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I… — William Shakespeare
Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee. — William Shakespeare
A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the… — John Cheever
Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. — John Dryden
Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will… — Ben Jonson

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