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- The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains. — George Carlin
- Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to… — Stephen Jay Gould
- "Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world. — Frederick Crews
- Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
- The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared… — Carl Sagan