Top 1200 Time Flies Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

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

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

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

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

When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream.

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

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

Nick Kyrgios, physically, is a monster. When he is on the court and he runs, he flies. And he has got a massive arm.

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

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.

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.

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series.

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

It's too late. It was too late by the time I arrived in London to turn your notebook into a dove; there were too many people already involved. Anything either of us does has an effect on everyone here, on every patron who walks through those gates. Hundreds if not thousands of people. All flies in a spiderweb that was spun when I was six years old and now I can barely move for fear of losing someone else.

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.

When on a summer's morn I wake, And open my two eyes, Out to the clear, born-singing rills My bird-like spirit flies. To hear the Blackbird, Cuckoo, Thrush, Or any bird in song; And common leaves that hum all day Without a throat or tongue. And when Time strikes the hour for sleep, Back in my room alone, My heart has many a sweet bird's song - And one that's all my own.

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

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

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!

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.

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

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.

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.

Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day.

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so.

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it.

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies.

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible.

'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.

Consider the word “time.” We use so many phrases with it. Pass time. Waste time. Kill time. Lose time. In good time. About time. Take your time. Save time. A long time. Right on time. Out of time. Mind the time. Be on time. Spare time. Keep time. Stall for time. There are as many expressions with “time” as there are minutes in a day. But once, there was no word for it at all. Because no one was counting. Then Dor began. And everything changed.

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

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

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

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

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.

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light.

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.

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

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

The wide stare stared itself out for one while; the Sun went down in a red, green, golden glory; the stars came out in the heavens, and the fire-flies mimicked them in the lower air, as men may feebly imitate the goodness of a better order of beings; the long dusty roads and the interminable plains were in repose-and so deep a hush was on the sea, that it scarcely whispered of the time when it shall give up its dead.

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

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

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying.

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.

Looks are like honey: They'll attract flies, bees, bears, but they won't necessarily keep them.

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.

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

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

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath.

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

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

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

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

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

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.]

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

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

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