Top 100 Quotes About Flies
#1. Unfortunately it's an incontrovertible fact that sound common sense flies out of the window as soon as love comes in through the door.
Kerstin Gier
#2. Sometimes I hate him. When he does the dishes, he shakes off each one before setting it in the drying rack. Water flies everywhere. A couple of drops always hit me in the face. I have to leave the room to avoid smashing a plate against his head.
Tarryn Fisher
#3. The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane.
Stephen Coonts
#5. There's divinity within because we come from the divine,
A force that's not seen, but you feel it every time:
When the wind blows, and the world turns,
And the rain drops, and the baby cries,
And the bird flies, and the ground quake,
And the stars gleam.
Q-Tip
#6. Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to admire the tenacity of these clever little creatures. They are really just hungry animals looking for something to eat, and have no intention of ruining your happy hour.
Michael Dickinson
#7. I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#8. Not since Lord of the Flies has a novelist written with such perceptiveness about the potential for harm that lurks within the innocence of childhood.
Paula Sharp
#9. Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#10. When I was young I used to smother myself with olive oil mixed with a dash of vinegar to keep the flies away and lay in the sunshine for hours on end. But we knew no better then. Now we know how stupid that was.
Stephanie Beacham
#11. When you were straight, evil thoughts and memories came pouring up out of the darkness inside you; buzzing black flies clinging to the insides of your skull.
J.K. Rowling
#12. You'll be mine before the next snow flies.
L.J.Smith
#13. Humans. Rats have bigger hearts. Roaches have kinder souls. Flies have-
Katherine Applegate
#14. Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.
Jon Lester
#15. You can catch more flies with honey than with sour milk
Kiran Desai
#16. Seagull owner?" "Flies in, shits on everything, and then leaves.
Ernie Lindsey
#17. The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies.
George Crabbe
#18. Under a low sun, pursued by fish and mounted by crows and veiled in a loud swarm of bluebottle flies, the body comes down the river like a deadfall stripped clean.
Jon Clinch
#19. Ideas are like the flint stone of wondrous works. You scratch at them until a spark flies ... then the world catches fire.
Gerard De Marigny
#20. It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.
Sara Zarr
#21. That like I best that flies beyond my reach.
Set me to scale the high pyramids
And thereon set the diadem of France;
I'll either rend it with my nails to nought,
Or mount the top with my aspiring wings,
Although my downfall be the deepest hell.
Christopher Marlowe
#22. The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
Horace
#23. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.
Frida Kahlo
#24. Anniversaries are lies if we forget why the confetti flies.
Gerard Way
#25. These flies were half the size of my fist. They came at you and stuck to you with a single-minded purpose you had to admire. We were hopelessly outnumbered, but we still slapped and kicked and karate-chopped ourselves until we reached an uneasy truce.
Terri Cheney
#26. When there are lines upon my face from a lifetime of smiles,
When the time comes to embrace for one long last while,
We can laugh about how time really flies,
We won't say goodbye 'cause true love never dies,You'll always be beautiful in my eyes.
Joshua Kadison
#27. The dreary flies, lazy and casual,
Stick to the ceiling, buzz along the wall.
O heart, the spider shuffles from the mould
Weaving, between the pinks and grapes, his pall.
Allen Tate
#28. I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.
Loudon Wainwright III
#30. I left them there for the flies and the birds and the sun and the wind. In the silence outside the Tour du Silence, I left them. Where the faceless dead faced the sky, I left them there at the center of the world.
Rick Yancey
#31. It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way!
Deyth Banger
#32. Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.
D.T. Suzuki
#33. That's the recoil of the same urge. The anarchist, the criminal, the murderer, he is only the extreme lover acting on the recoil. But it is love: only in recoil. It flies back, the love-urge, and becomes a horror.
D.H. Lawrence
#34. He loves us. On our own terms. He treats us as equals to the men around him; he listens; he does not belittle; he honors us; he challenges us; he teaches us; he includes us - calls us all beloved. Gloriously, this flies in the face of the cultural expectations of his time - and even our own time.
Sarah Bessey
#35. Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays.
Robert Southwell
#36. Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
Oliver Goldsmith
#37. I do not need love now, I needed it while I was down and the majority of the faces that are showing up, were not anywhere to be found when I really needed their support. Now they swarm like flies.
D. Hunter
#39. Charlie Tilghman, who flies a restored B-24 for the Commemorative Air Force, taught me about flying the Liberator.
Laura Hillenbrand
#40. The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold ...
William Butler Yeats
#41. Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
Lynne Cheney
#42. She said that what was in the past was best left there and that talking about it was like stirring a fresh cow pile with a wooden spoon. Didn't accomplish a thing, and only made the stink and the flies worse and the spoon useless for anything else. Then
Carolyn Brown
#43. But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.
Aristotle.
#44. Time flies when you're fulfilling your ambitions in a completely unexpected way.
J.C. Lillis
#45. When a bird flies too high, it loses its song. -- Old Chinese Proverb
Rebecca Yount
#46. I hear from afar the shouts of that false wisdom which is ever dragging us onwards, counting the present as nothing, and pursuing without pause a future which flies as we pursue, that false wisdom which removes us from our place and never brings us to any other.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#47. It's embarrassing to admit how many times I've reread the following: 'A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,' '1984,' 'Lord of the Flies,' 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,' 'Germinal,' 'We Have Always Lived in the Castle,' and 'A Moveable Feast.'
Suzanne Collins
#48. If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#49. The flies festered over the bodies, in some way aware that the war had ended and determined to hoard every morsel of flesh for the coming famine of the peace.
J.G. Ballard
#50. Look out into the July night, and see the broad belt of silver flame which flashes up the half of heaven, fresh and delicate as the bonfires of the meadow-flies. Yet the powers of numbers cannot compute its enormous age, - lasting as space and time, - embosomed in time and space.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#51. I'd rather have peanut brittle crumbs on my face than flies in my eyes, Havermeyer retorted.
Joseph Heller
#52. ...the race isn't over until the checker flies.
Garth Stein
#54. Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.
Victor Hugo
#55. A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.
Charles Bukowski
#56. Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel
Martina Mcbride
#57. It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
Lance Burton
#58. I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling.
Groucho Marx
#59. What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!
D.H. Lawrence
#60. Today he'd intentionally wandered too far. Wandered away from those who hovered around him like flies to a carcass.
Renee Ahdieh
#61. It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing.
Bob Hope
#62. He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.
Saint Augustine
#63. When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!
Winston Churchill
#64. Little Miss Bauer sat in her tower, eating a burger and fries. Along came a spider who sat down beside her and said "I prefer zee French flies.
Julia Durango
#65. Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.
William Shakespeare
#66. In 1969, we emigrated to Australia. It was a big change. The heat, the flies, and the completely different tinned meats. The shock was so great, I stopped reading books for nearly a year.
Morris Gleitzman
#67. It is difficult, but intriguing, to imagine seeing the world as a fly might. First, flies don't have nearly the same visual resolution that we do ... so you have to imagine a fuzzier image. Second, fly eyes are faster than our own and are very sensitive to motion.
Michael Dickinson
#68. Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#69. Yossarian makes any attempts to excuse himself from the perilous missions then he is caught in Catch-22: if he flies he is crazy, and doesn't have to; but if he doesn't want to he must be sane and has to. That's some catch ...
Joseph Heller
#70. This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over.
Seth Godin
#71. We can do genetics. We can do experiments on fruit flies. We can do experiments on yeast. It's not so easy to do experiments on humans. So, in fact, it helps us, to interpret our own genetic code, to have the genetic code of the other species.
Craig Venter
#72. Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me.
"Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window.
Simone Elkeles
#73. The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.
Johannes Kepler
#74. At about 10 o'clock in the morning the sun threw a bright dust-laden bar through one of the side windows and in and out of the beam flies shot like rushing stars.
John Steinbeck
#75. As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
#76. True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.
Iris Murdoch
#77. If people in this country think of Africa as a place with kids and flies swarming around their heads, then they won't understand that these people are you and you are them.
Don Cheadle
#78. Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,
Making all bright,
Good night! Good night!
Victor Hugo
#79. I now wondered if the lullaby of death was not a lovely song, but the droning of flies. If flies and maggots were all Death's handmaidens.
Sarah J. Maas
#80. 'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
Suzanne Collins
#81. Everything will eventually come to an end,
So try to savor the moment, cause time flies, don't it?
The beauty of life, you gotta make it last for the better,
Cause nothin' lasts forever.
Nas
#82. A majority of Americans oppose partial-birth abortion, and Judge Hamilton's decision flies in the face of Congress passing and President Bush signing legislation banning such horrible acts of violence.
Marc Racicot
#83. In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us.
Michel De Montaigne
#84. Through the sharp air a flaky torrent flies, Mocks the slow sight, and hides the gloomy skies; The fleecy clouds their chilly bosoms bare, And shed their substance on the floating air.
George Crabbe
#85. Nothing - Elder, Next Generation, immortal or human - was completely indestructible. Not even Areop-Enap. Perenelle herself had once brought an ancient temple down on the spider's head and it had shrugged off the attack - yet could it survive billions of poisonous flies?
Michael Scott
#86. I don't understand
how everything moves so quickly.
They say time flies when you're having fun,
but I wasn't always having fun.
Even when I was mad or sad,
time was always on the run.
Amanda Leigh
#87. Time flies when you're falling down ... (not from a book, it's a lyric)
Courtney Love
#88. Librarians. He'd never met one with a bad memory. He had a theory that words stuck to their minds like flies to flypaper.
Cornelia Funke
#89. Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#90. The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but they are very important in that they make it easier to do the things which bring success and in some cases are essential to success.
Ray Bergman
#92. Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark.
Vladimir Nabokov
#93. Count all th' advantage prosperous Vice attains,
'Tis but what Virtue flies from and disdains:
And grant the bad what happiness they would,
One they must want
which is, to pass for good.
Alexander Pope
#94. Sam handed back the sword. "When I try to swat a bug, it always flies away. All I do is slap my arm. It stings." That made Jon laugh.
George R R Martin
#95. As his mouth flooded with that horrible sweet purple taste, he could actually see those grapes dull, dusty, obese and nasty, crawling up a dirty stucco wall in a thick, syrupy sunlight that was silent except for the stupid buzz of many flies
Stephen King
#96. As the crow flies-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line.
William Henry Maule
#97. The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity; it is the dirt that brings them together.
M.F. Moonzajer
#98. "Tell me, sir, what is a butterfly?"
"It's what you are meant to become. It flies with beautiful wings and joins the earth to heaven. It drinks only nectar from the flowers and carries the seeds of love from one flower to another. Without butterflies, the world would soon have few flowers.
Trina Paulus
#99. Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
Robert Orben
#100. While we only think instead of acting, time flies by us.
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