Secure Quote by Georg C. Lichtenberg Download Open image “The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.” — Georg C. Lichtenberg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Secure Want
“The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
It is best not to swat at the fly's starting position, but rather to aim a bit forward of that to anticipate where the… — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
Probably the earliest fly swatters were nothing more than some sort of striking surface attached to the end of a long stick. — Jack Handy Copy Share Image
You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else,… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“It would be nice if a single swat made the fly think: 'Whoa. I'm not flying THERE again. But it doesn't. He keeps coming… — Gregor Collins Copy Share Image
Although their maneuverability is limited, blind flies can fly remarkably well. — Michael Dickinson Copy Share Image
You have to get beyond the barrier of self-protection before you can really fly. — Elizabeth Streb Copy Share Image
If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The wisdom of providence is as much revealed in the rarity of genius, as in the circumstance that not everyone is deaf or blind. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share
It is a great shame; most of our words are misused tools / which often still smell of the mud in which previous owners… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
To live when you do not want to is dreadful, but it would be even more terrible to be immortal when you did not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
The fruits of philosophy are the important thing, not the philosophy itself. When we ask the time, we don't want to know how watches… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
He who says he hates all kinds of flattery, and says so in earnest, has undoubtedly not as yet become acquainted with all kinds… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One can live in this world on soothsaying but not on truth saying. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Get rid of the idea that God wants you to sacrifice yourself for others, and that you can secure his favor by doing so; God requires nothing of the kind from you. What He wants is that you should make the most of yourself, for yourself, and for others; and you can help others more by making the most of… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share
Of course, learning is strengthened and solidified when it occurs in a safe, secure and normal environment. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide Copy Share Image
“You were right. As you know. Other people may sail through lives of blue seas, with only the occasional squall, but for me life… — Rosamund Lupton Copy Share Image
There is one, and only one solution, and we have almost no time to try it. We must turn all our resources to repairing the natural world, and train all our young people to help. They want to; we need to give them this last chance to create forests, soils, clean waters, clean energies, secure communities, stable regions, and to… — Bill Mollison Copy Share
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Any creative process is about being in a territory which isn't secure, isn't necessarily familiar, and isn't convenient in any sort of way. And… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Rulers who wished to subvert the public liberty, may have found an established Clergy convenient auxiliaries. A just Government instituted to secure & perpetuate… — James Madison Copy Share Image
American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield,… — John Yoo Copy Share Image