Fly Quotes

2605 Fly quotes by 1715 unique authors

Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly. — Jonathan Swift
I don't fly on account of my religion. I'm a devout coward. — Henny Youngman
The mother eagle teachers her little ones to fly by making their nest so uncomfortable that they are forced to leave it and commit themselves… — Hannah Whitall Smith
I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly. — Winston Churchill
Let no one honour me with tears, or bury me with lamentation. Why? Because I fly hither and thither, living in the mouths of me. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The delicate muses lose their head if their attention is once diverted. Perhaps if you were successful abroad in talking and dealing with men, you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own… — Eric Hoffer
A thousand trills and quivering sounds In airy circles o'er us fly, Till, wafted by a gentle breeze, They faint and languish by degrees, And… — Joseph Addison
The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment,… — Mark Twain
Loud o'er my head though awful thunders roll, And vivid lightnings flash from pole to pole, Yet 'tis Thy voice, my God, that bids them… — Walter Scott
Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. — 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
Of fight or fly, This choice is left ye, to resist or die. — Alexander Pope
Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,… — Alexander Pope
Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky. — Alexander Pope
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite. — Ray Bradbury
If there ever was an aviary overstocked with jays it is that Yaptown-on-the-Hudson, call New York. Cosmopolitan they call it, you bet. So's a piece… — O. Henry
O friends, be men; so act that none may feel Ashamed to meet the eyes of other men. Think each one of this children and… — Homer
Birds fly over the rainbow, Why then - oh, why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow why, oh why, can't I. — L. Frank Baum
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
The south-wind strengthens to a gale, / Across the moon the clouds fly fast, / The house is smitten as with a flail, / The… — Robert Bridges
Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn… — John Fletcher
Will you walk into my parlour? Said the spider to a fly: '"Tis the prettiest little parlour That ever you did spy. — Mary Howitt
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly?… — Richard Henry Dana, Jr.
Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly. — Ivan Pavlov

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