Fly Quotes

2605 Fly quotes by 1715 unique authors

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 — I don’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 can’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
It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment… — Martin Pistorius
The saxophone is so human. Its tendency is to be rowdy, edgy, talk too loud, bump into people, say the wrong words at the wrong… — Joy Harjo
Your love has a broken wing if it cannot fly across the sea. — Maltbie Davenport Babcock
The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey. — George Santayana
I neglect God and his angles for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. — John Donne
Events of all sorts creep or fly exactly as God pleases. — William Cowper
Even the bold will fly when they see Death drawing in close enough to end their life. — Sophocles
... the wing of a fly is proof enough of the existence of God for me. — Pat Conroy
If frogs could fly - well, we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat? — Drew Carey
... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe… — Bernard Malamud
Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion. — John Barth

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