Like Flies Quotes
30 quotes by 26 authors
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Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.
— Groucho Marx
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Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.
— Jules Renard
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Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.
— Anatole France
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As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented,…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.
— Charles Simic
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Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies of in the…
— William J. Clinton
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I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats die, gerbils and…
— Raymond Briggs
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Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They are like flies…
— Ibn Taymiyyah
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The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on…
— Charles Bukowski
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Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!
— L. Neil Smith
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Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round…
— Jean Paul
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You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad…
— Tom Petty
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Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is by the miracle…
— Diane Setterfield
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Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
— Bertrand Russell
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People die all around us all the time. Drop like flies. Overdose. Aids. Sometimes they kill themselves. People come. They go. Dying is the same…
— James St. James
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He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O…
— Said Nursi
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Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on…
— Thomas Wolfe
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People around me die. They drop like flies. I've gone through life leaving a trail of dead bodies behind me. My mother is dead, my…
— Ilona Andrews
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For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies.
— Lauren DeStefano
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You’re like a god from a Greek myth, Saiman. You have no empathy. You have no concept of the world beyond your ego. Wanting something…
— Ilona Andrews
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