Top 794 Flies Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies.

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies.

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another.

My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

I always seemed to appreciate the production value in a show, whether it was a rotating set or a costume that has a bit that flies off it.

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.

People are inexterminable - like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices - that's us.

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

A new cologne is coming out. It's for cowboys, and it's made from cow's manure. That way the women will be on you like flies!

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.

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old.

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water.

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter.

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies.

If you're miserable and someone flies by looking like they have everything in the whole world and it's never going to be you, that's tough to deal with.

The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away.

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right?

The wing structure of the hornet, in relation to its weight, is not suitable for flight, but he does not know this and flies anyway.

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear.

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist!

A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

The real 'Lord of the Flies' is a tale of friendship and loyalty; one that illustrates how much stronger we are if we can lean on each other.

To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.

It's funny, don't you think, how time seems to do a lot of things? It flies, it tells, and worst of all, it runs out.

The image of entrepreneurship as the province of the unprivileged and un-entitled - the Horatio Alger, rags to riches myth - flies in the face of reality.

'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.

He that hath a scrupulous conscience is like a horse that is not well weighed; he starts at every bird that flies out of the hedge.

Sleep, the type of death, is also, like that which it typifies, restricted to the earth. It flies from hell and is excluded from heaven.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.

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

Religious freedom is a proud founding principle of America and ethnic bigotry flies in the face of American principles of liberty and equality.

Life is so fast. And I still remember when I came up to the big leagues and played as if it were yesterday. Time flies.

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee.

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it.

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator.

Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith, Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face.

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed.

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime.

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door.

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else.

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies.

A fish swims in the ocean, and no matter how far it swims there is no end to the water. A bird flies in the sky, and no matter how far it flies there is no end to the air. However the fish and the bird have never left their elements. Thus each of them totally covers its full range, and each of them totally experiences its realm... Know that water is life and air is life. The bird is life and the fish is life. Life must be the bird and life must be the fish... practice, enlightenment and people are like this.

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs.

I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of them.