Fly Quotes

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When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year… — Matt Striker
O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey wells. — Helen Hunt Jackson
Our system freed the individual genius of man. Released him to fly as high & as far as his own talent & energy would take… — Ronald Reagan
My whole artistic life has been devoted to battling myself and my ability to externalize my deepest emotions. As I have gotten older, the work… — Joyce Tenneson
Nothing great or new can be done without enthusiasm. Enthusiasm is the fly-wheel which carries your saw through the knots in the log. — Harvey Cushing
The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him… — Khalil Gibran
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer
Do you know the times when one seems to stick fast in circumstances like the fly in the jam-pot? It can't be helped, and I… — A. C. Benson
I fly in dreams, I know it is my privilege, I do not recall a single situation in dreams when I was unable to fly.… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am restless. I am athirst for faraway things. My soul goes out in a longing to touch the skirt of the dim distance. O… — Rabindranath Tagore
By his machines man can dive and remain under water like a shark; can fly like a hawk in the air; can see atoms like… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like commas. I detest semi-colons â€” I donâ€™t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found… — E L Doctorow
I have myself a poetical enthusiasm for pigs, and the paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings. But it is only men,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not… — Neil Kinnock
Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we canâ€™t… — Unknown Author
Many have justice in their hearts, but slowly it is let fly, for it comes not without council to the bow. — Dante Alighieri
When you forget to take the sail at all, then the wind is constantly in your favour both ways. But there! this world is only… — Jerome K. Jerome
Itâ€™s right to say that people fall in love. We donâ€™t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment… — Martin Pistorius

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