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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… — Groucho Marx
- Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door,… — Jules Renard
- Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. — Anatole France
- As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility,… — Charles Baudelaire
- Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. — Charles Simic
- Demand that your government pays more attention. It's immoral that people in Africa die like flies of diseases that no one dies… — William J. Clinton
- I don't believe in happy endings. Children have got to face death sooner or later. Granny and Grandpa die, dogs die, cats… — Raymond Briggs
- Some people have the disease of criticising all the time. They forget the good about others and only mention their faults. They… — Ibn Taymiyyah
- The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers.… — Charles Bukowski
- Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage! — L. Neil Smith
- Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they… — Jean Paul
- You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more.… — Tom Petty