Fly Swatter Quotes

#1. If criticism is needed, do it tactfully. Don't use a sledgehammer when a fly swatter will do the job.

Ann Landers

#2. It is with eight lengthy legs we use to catch food, balance and knit a beautiful silk bed,
but as babies we had lost our bones and skin, and hence our legs we had shed.

Jasmine Jean

#3. Society is better off without certain people.

Bernhard Goetz

#4. I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

Chris Cunningham

#5. The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

H.L. Mencken

#6. The Doktor took a fly swatter and hit it hard. 'Bang!' it went. But it didn't go splat! The roach just shook its heads, hissed at him, and staggered off with two minor headaches.

Christina Engela

#7. The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

#8. I used to call her, in my stupidity - for want of anything better - a dove

Henry James

#9. 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 fly is going to jump when it first sees your swatter.

Michael Dickinson

#10. The worst thing to happen to Lincoln - aside from the unfortunate incident at Ford's theatre - was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

Gore Vidal

#11. I was making pancakes the other day and a fly flew into the kitchen. And that's when I realized that a spatula is a lot like a fly swatter. And a crushed fly is a lot like a blueberry. And a roommate is a lot like a fly eater.

Demetri Martin

#12. Tweets and text messages killed the long novel.

Andrew Barger

#13. Whatever you think you are, that's what you are

John Bellairs

#14. I have taken the opportunity to update the book and include new theoretical and observational results obtained since the book was first published (on April Fools' Day, 1988).

Stephen Hawking

#15. It is the professional pilot's bounden duty to know the idiosyncrasies of each type (of airplane), for he must spend a large proportion of his active career exploiting its qualities and compensating for its faults. These secrets cannot be discovered in a ground school.

Ernest K. Gann

#16. I had to free myself from my devotion to him... to us... without losing my ability to believe in love.

Jennifer Harrison

#17. Any experience, however, trivial in its first appearance, is capable of assuming an indefinite richness of significance by extending its range of perceived connections.

John Dewey

#18. The fly lands on the swatter.
The movie runs backwards
and catches fire in the projector.
This species apes us well
by talking only about itself

Billy Collins

#19. Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.

Trent Reznor

#20. You might be a redneck if you keep a fly swatter in the front seat of the car so you can reach your kids in the back seat of the car.

Jeff Foxworthy

#21. Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

Nicholas Roerich

#22. You might be a redneck if you can amuse yourself for more than an hour with a fly swatter.

Jeff Foxworthy

#23. Teddy Roosevelt ... once said, 'Speak softly and carry a big stick.' Jimmy Carter wants to speak loudly and carry a fly swatter.

Gerald R. Ford

#24. I am a big fan of Dos Passos' stylistic ability, his poetic approach to prose, but the ideas presented in the songs are quite different from those which he exemplified.

Neil Peart