Affected Quote by Kenneth Grahame

“An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.”

— Kenneth Grahame

“We are quiet, contemplative people, and our behaviour in the field is relatively aristocratic. Running is not necessarily beneath our dignity but it is…

— Fredrik Sjöberg

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

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings.

— Dante Alighieri

The winter passes and the warm winds of May made me long to wander again. The whistling of a locomotive on a still night…

— Jim Tully

“They all seemed hungry, happy, and healthy enough in their buzzing—oh the days were hot, and the noise of bees filled the air that…

— Janet Frame

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

— Gilbert White

The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.

— George Carlin

“many pairs of legs and with two great bat-like wings in the middle of the back. They sometimes walked on all their legs, and…

— H.P. Lovecraft

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,…

— Joseph Addison

A blight had fallen on the trees and shrubs; and the wind, at length beginning to break the unnatural stillness that had prevailed all…

— Charles Dickens

A kestrel can and does hover in the dead calm of summer days, when there is not the faintest breath of wind. He will,…

— Richard Jefferies