Quotes about Flies

Flies are busiest about leane horses. Votes: 3

Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals. Votes: 3

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. Votes: 3

Flies are the price we pay for summer. Votes: 3

Flies purify the air, and plays - the morals. Votes: 3

Flies die in so many lonely places. -Roberta Rohbeson Votes: 3

Flies? Flies? Poor puny things. Who wants to eat flies? Votes: 3

Cara: *Flies* Gen: What? I don't have wings! Cara: Ofcourse not! You're a boy. Votes: 3

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies. Votes: 3

An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies. Votes: 3

In the village, a sage should go about Like a bee, which, not harmingFlower, colour or scent, Flies off with the nectar. Votes: 3

Would you mind getting off that fly paper and giving the flies a chance?" "Ahhh, you can't trick me! Flies don't read papers! Votes: 3

The stubbornest of wills Are soonest bended, as the hardest iron, O'er-heated in the fire to brittleness,Flies soonest into fragments, shivered through. Votes: 3

For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs. Votes: 3

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'" Votes: 3

Fervency in prayer by the power of the Holy Spirit is a good preservative against thoughts rushing in. Flies never settle on the boiling pot. Votes: 3

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. Votes: 3

Yeah. I'm the fly in the soup. I don't like it any better than you do. Flies don't like being swamped in soup, especially when it's hot. Votes: 3

'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. Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir... Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through. Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it... Flies do, too! Votes: 3

I recently watched Peter Brook's Lord of the Flies, and it wasn't a favorite film. Then I saw the one that was made in 1990, which in my opinion didn't match up to the original. Votes: 3

I don't miss much about my childhood. I lived in a good neighborhood, a wacky neighborhood. It was a very boy-heavy neighborhood - kind of Lord of the Flies-y. So many weird things happened, funny things. Votes: 3

As the show's executive producer, I envisioned something akin to "Gilligan's Island" meets Lord of the Flies meets Ten Little Indians mets "The Real World." "Survivor" marks a return to a core element of adventure: staying alive. Votes: 3

I am beyond good and evil at this point. I am beyond the lines drawn in the sand by society at this juncture. I am beyond fear, beyond religion, beyond the morals and mores. I am Lord of the Fucking Flies. Do you understand? Votes: 3

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.' Votes: 3

Time flies never to be recalled. Votes: 2

Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Votes: 2

When you get a groove going, time flies. Votes: 2

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. Votes: 2

But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained. Votes: 2

Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator. Votes: 2

Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana. Votes: 2

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. Votes: 2

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. Votes: 2

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. Votes: 2

The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine. Votes: 2

The most fearless hearts, the audacious dreamers, have always maintained a sense of optimism that often flies in the face of the available evidence. Votes: 2

He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly. Votes: 2

Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense. Votes: 2

Time flies so quick. I remember my second year in business when Bullocks Wilshire did a whole window of my white dresses. I was so excited, I went there at night and took pictures. Votes: 2

I have absorbed my life now. I am ready for my music to unfold. I know time flies, but before the end of this year, the album will be out. Even if it kills me. Votes: 2

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow. Votes: 2

We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people. Votes: 2

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

What I find problematic is the suggestion that when, say, Madonna adopts an African child, she is saving Africa. It's not that simple. You have to do more than go there and adopt a child or show us pictures of children with flies in their eyes. That simplifies Africa. Votes: 2

The Metropole Orchestra is like Count Basie or Duke Ellington with strings... it's strings that swing. Strings that swing like Dizzy Gillespie... keep swinging, baby. And when you have all of that special excellence of the Metropole Orchestra, then your music just flies - it soars in a way that's really magical. Votes: 2

Life flies by, and it's easy to get lost in the blur. In adolescence, it's 'How do I fit in?' In your 20s, it's 'What do I want to do?' In your 30s, 'Is this what I'm meant to do?' I think the trick is living the questions. Not worrying so much about what's ahead but rather sitting in the grey area - being OK with where you are. Votes: 2

Money just draws flies. Votes: 0

Eagles don't catch flies. Votes: 0

Tempus fugit (time flies). Votes: 0

A closed mouth catches no flies. Votes: 0

If feathers don't ruffle, nothing flies. Votes: 0

Time flies when you are anxious! Votes: 0

A man dies when hope flies. Votes: 0

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably. Votes: 0

Hurry is only admissible in catching flies. Votes: 0

Outside our small safe place flies mystery. Votes: 0

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage! Votes: 0

Time flies when you’re being stupid. Votes: 0

Prayer flies where the eagle never flew. Votes: 0

The gull sees farthest who flies highest Votes: 0

The Golden Crane flies for Tarmon Gai'don! Votes: 0

The sparrow flies south for the winter. Votes: 0

Into a mouth shut flies flie not. Votes: 0

Thought flies and words go on foot. Votes: 0

Time flies when you are having fun. Votes: 0

How time flies when one has fun! Votes: 0

I wish these flies would piss off. Votes: 0

To a boiling pot flies come not. Votes: 0

All fish are not caught with flies Votes: 0

It's Bernoulli not Marconi that flies the airplane. Votes: 0

Flight is lawful, when one flies from tyrants. Votes: 0

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds. Votes: 0

Time flies when you're running out of money. Votes: 0

Time flies when you grow fangs and fur. Votes: 0

And see she flies, and she is everywhere. Votes: 0

A full belly neither fights nor flies well. Votes: 0

Time flies, and what is past is done. Votes: 0

Time flies on restless pinions - constant never. Votes: 0

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies. Votes: 0

Without continuity, men would become like flies in summer. Votes: 0

Reason flies When following the senses, on clipped wings. Votes: 0

Photographs attract false beliefs the way flypaper attracts flies. Votes: 0

Where there are humans, You'll find flies,And Buddhas. Votes: 0

Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it. Votes: 0

True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. Votes: 0

Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. Votes: 0

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo. Votes: 0

Time flies whether you are having fun or not. Votes: 0

Make good use of your time, it flies fast. Votes: 0

A kite flies against the wind, not with it. Votes: 0

Do what we can, summer will have its flies. Votes: 0

I kill flies, I eat meat, you know, whatever. Votes: 0

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason. Votes: 0

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. Votes: 0

How time flies when you're doin all the talking. Votes: 0

Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man. Votes: 0

Conflict follows wrongdoing as surely as flies follow the herd. Votes: 0

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time! Votes: 0

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. Votes: 0

Catching flies is better training than hitting the speed bag Votes: 0

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana Votes: 0

Enjoy the now. Time flies, enjoy it while you can. Votes: 0

They say time flies, but you keep breaking it's wings. Votes: 0

The time flies. The time flies feed on rotting clocks. Votes: 0

Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies. Votes: 0

It flies so high, I swear I heard the organs playing. Votes: 0

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. Votes: 0

The man who flies an airplane ... must believe in the unseen. Votes: 0

Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. Votes: 0

Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. Votes: 0

Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow. Votes: 0

The man who flies shall fight again. [Lat., Qui fugiebat, rusus praeliabitur.] Votes: 0

When experience flies into realms that language cannot touch, honesty demands beyond-language. Votes: 0

Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it. Votes: 0

Banish the onion from the kitchen and the pleasure flies with it. Votes: 0

My life flies away like a dream: Why should I stay behind? Votes: 0

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. Votes: 0

Which arrow flies for ever? The arrow that has hit its mark. Votes: 0

The first two days of a vacation are endless; then it flies. Votes: 0

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever. Votes: 0

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies. Votes: 0

Queen's University flies the flag for the arts in Northern Ireland and beyond. Votes: 0

Take the road where the eagle flies, man follows where his fortune lies. Votes: 0

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. Votes: 0

No gunfire, famine, or flies. Just lots of toothpaste, gardening and people stuff. Votes: 0

Compared to the bugs and the spiders and flies, I am an apeman. Votes: 0

Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Votes: 0

When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window. Votes: 0

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! Votes: 0

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Votes: 0

A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. Votes: 0

Birds are the eyes of heaven, and flies are the spies of hell. Votes: 0

He who kisses joy as it flies by will live in eternity's sunrise. Votes: 0

Even a hunter cannot kill a bird which flies to him for refuge. Votes: 0

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Votes: 0

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series. Votes: 0

The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life. Votes: 0

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Votes: 0

As the crow flies"-a popular and picturesque expression to denote a straight line. Votes: 0

The hard, inescapable reality is that anyone who flies may die in an airplane. Votes: 0

Good angels are fallible ... they sin every day and fall from Heaven like flies. Votes: 0

We are nature. We are nature seeing nature. The red-winged blackbird flies in us. Votes: 0

Thus all things altered. Nothing dies. And here and there the unbodied spirit flies. Votes: 0

Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies, and love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies. Votes: 0

Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest skyMy mind flies high with joyful laughter. Votes: 0

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. Votes: 0

Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. Votes: 0

One shouldnt ask oneself how a person flies or why, but simply start flying. Votes: 0

I never wanted it to end this way, but flies will lay their eggs. Votes: 0

Many are idly busy; Domitian was busy, but then it was in catching flies. Votes: 0

When perfect frankness comes in at the door love flies out of the window. Votes: 0

A spoon full of honey gets more flies than a barrel full of vinegar. Votes: 0

Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back. Votes: 0

Hey! Leave the door open will ya? The flies haven't been out all day. Votes: 0

In love, 'tis no other than frantic desire for that which flies from us. Votes: 0

The balloon seems to stand still in the air while the earth flies past underneath. Votes: 0

crawling about the floor like half-dead November flies is one thing, and dancing reels another. Votes: 0

There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus. Votes: 0

I think Pan is a superhero movie; I mean, the kid flies in the end. Votes: 0

A heart with love flies like a dove in the sky of beauty and kindness. Votes: 0

The birds are the eyes of heaven, and the flies are the spies of hell. Votes: 0

One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey that with twenty casks of vinegar. Votes: 0

He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies. Votes: 0

Let me be dressed as I will, yet flies worms and flowers exceed me still. Votes: 0

If it flies, floats or fornicates, always rent it.. it's cheaper in the long run. Votes: 0

Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late. Votes: 0

A woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows. Votes: 0

A bird does not fly because it has wings; it has wings because it flies. Votes: 0

The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not. Votes: 0

A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice... Votes: 0

Taste, that eternal wanderer, which flies From head to ears, and now from ears to eyes. Votes: 0

The first of America's 79 million baby boomers turned 60 this month. Time flies when you're growing old. Votes: 0

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. Votes: 0

Time flies, dreams die, people lose faith, Tryna hide behind a lie with a straight face. Votes: 0

My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies. Votes: 0

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything. Votes: 0

Bets at first were fool-traps, where the wise like spiders lay in ambush for the flies. Votes: 0

Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Votes: 0

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. Votes: 0

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me and followed me around in my dreams. Votes: 0

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies. Votes: 0

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies. Votes: 0

The soul, O ganders, flies beyond the parks And far beyond the discords of the wind. Votes: 0

I'd just say the flies get bigger in the summertime. I guess the flies are buzzing. Votes: 0

Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages. Votes: 0

While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away. Votes: 0

I immediately loved working with flies. They fascinated me, and followed me around in my dreams. Votes: 0

Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed. Votes: 0

For males twenty-five is the fatal age. For women it's twenty. We are all dropping like flies. Votes: 0

An X-wing fighter flies like an airplane. If you look at the physics, it's actually quite impossible. Votes: 0

As my Sicilian grandfather used to say, you get more flies with honey than with vinegar, right? Votes: 0

Law is a silvery web that lets the big flies pass and catches all the small ones. Votes: 0

The velocity with which time flies is infinite, as is most apparent to those who look back. Votes: 0

Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues. Votes: 0

Suspicion is an owl that flies when the light is bad and catches only vermin for food. Votes: 0

In a mouse we admire God's creation and craft work. The same may be said about flies. Votes: 0

Time never bears such moments on his wing as when he flies too swiftly to be marked. Votes: 0

If slander be a snake, it is a winged one - it flies as well as creeps. Votes: 0

A man of supreme folly: his life flies away while he is merely hoping to enjoy it. Votes: 0

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end. Votes: 0

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. Votes: 0

Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window. Votes: 0

Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies. Votes: 0

If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough. Votes: 0

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on. Votes: 0

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense. Votes: 0

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God. Votes: 0

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. Votes: 0

When the wind stops, kite falls but bird flies; because bird did not borrow the wind when rising! Votes: 0

When the star dies, Its eye closes; tired of watching, It flies back to its first bright dream. Votes: 0

A bird only flies. It does not turn to another bird and ask, am I doing this right? Votes: 0

Make the most of time, it flies away so fast; yet method will teach you to win time. Votes: 0

Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. Votes: 0

Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. Votes: 0

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies. Votes: 0

The flies were teaching an advanced seminar in philosophy as they crawled up the crack of my ass" Votes: 0

If a cultural reference flies over a man's head, does it make a sound if nobody else gets it. Votes: 0

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. Votes: 0

All the minor sports injuries you acquire over the years begin to multiply like flies when you get over 70. Votes: 0

To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face. Votes: 0

Spring flies, and with it all the train it leads; and flowers, in fading, leave us but their seeds. Votes: 0

I have an agreement with the houseflies. The flies don't practice law and I don't walk on the ceiling. Votes: 0

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand. Votes: 0

Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me. Votes: 0

A Bat meeting any one running away, signifies an evasion: for although she have no wings, yet she flies. Votes: 0

Wonder Woman is lame. She flies around in an invisible jet, but she's not invisible. I don't get it. Votes: 0

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it. Votes: 0

Did we really come all that way?" She asked. "Time flies when you're scared out of your mind." He answered. Votes: 0

True love gallops, it flies, it is the swiftest of all modes of thought, swifter even than hate and fear. Votes: 0

A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies. Votes: 0

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies. Votes: 0

To me it's still a greater miracle when a fly flies than when a human being undertakes to do so. Votes: 0

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end. Votes: 0

People are inexterminable like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices that's us. Votes: 0

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God. Votes: 0

Words make love on the page like flies in the summer heat and the poet is only the bemused spectator. Votes: 0

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. Votes: 0

Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection, Figures pedantical--these summer flies Have blown me full of maggot ostentation. Votes: 0

Lawyers are like spiders, they've eat up all the flies, and I guess they'll have to eat each other soon. Votes: 0

My soule her wings doth spread And heaven-ward flies, Th' Almighty's Mysteries to read In the large volumes of the skies. Votes: 0

A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others; for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies. Votes: 0

Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier. Votes: 0

Remember what your mama told you about honey and vinegar: Be nice, and you’ll catch more flies, if nothing else. Votes: 0

The orchestra whirls me wider than Uranus flies, It wrenches such ardors from me I did not know I possess'd them Votes: 0

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. Votes: 0

The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him. Votes: 0

You may catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but you'll get them to work harder if you use a flyswatter. Votes: 0

Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. Votes: 0

Time. It hangs heavy for the bored, eludes the busy, flies by the for young, and runs out for the aged. Votes: 0

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it. Votes: 0

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad. Votes: 0

Theres a woman in Arkansas that's such a bad cook, that a swarm of flies got together and repaired her screen door. Votes: 0

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex. Votes: 0

It's just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission. Votes: 0

The days are usually filled with nonsense and every now and again somebody flies by the circus to party on your dime. Votes: 0

...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'. Votes: 0

Courage is like a disobedient dog, once it starts running away it flies all the faster for your attempts to recall it. Votes: 0

Sometimes a lengthened period of prosperity melts away in a moment; just as the heat of summer flies before a day of tempest. Votes: 0

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. Votes: 0

Many a night I saw the Pleiads, Rising thro' the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies, Tangled in a silver braid. Votes: 0

Good advice is a wise man's friend, of course; but sometimes it just flies on past, and all you can do is wave. Votes: 0

We are tired who follow after fantasy and truth that flies: You with only look and laughter stain our hearts with richest dyes. Votes: 0

Photos are profound because they have such short lives. They are more like fingerprints, dead leaves, rain puddles, or the corpses of flies. Votes: 0

The demon had trouble remembering what she was doing, but she was powerful, sort of the crazy Wendy of the lost lord-of-the-flies boys. Votes: 0

Can imagination act Perpendicular to fact? Can it be a kite that flies Till the Earth , umbrella-wise, Folds and drops away from sight? Votes: 0

Prayer is good; but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is nothing but a blatant hypocrisy... Don't hedge! Time flies! ... Enlist! Votes: 0

Understanding is always in some sense retrospective, which is what Hegel meant by remarking that the owl of Minerva flies only at night. Votes: 0

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. Votes: 0

Man is a machine of remembrance; all we do is to remember things because life flies fast like a swallow; reality immediately disappears! Votes: 0

I believe that anyone who flies in an airplane and doesn't spend most of his time looking out the window wastes his money. Votes: 0

Life, according to Zen, ought to be lived as a bird flies through the air, or as a fish swims in the water. Votes: 0

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it; not hard enough and it flies away. Votes: 0

Aioli epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provencal sun, but it has another virtue -- it drives away flies. Votes: 0

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow. Votes: 0

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. Votes: 0

All there is to do, right at this very moment, is to breathe in, breathe out, and kiss the joy as it flies. Votes: 0

Do you ever lose the ego?" Westford asks me. "Yeah." When his daughter kisses me, my ego flies out the window. Votes: 0

If you have sense enough to realize why flies gather around a restaurant, you should be able to appreciate why men run for office. Votes: 0

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command. Votes: 0

Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. Votes: 0

Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary of Apollo 11. Votes: 0

Time flies fast, but it's good you are the pilot. Just control your time well away from hijackers. Save time profitably; Spend time productively! Votes: 0

And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze. Votes: 0

The more there is, the less I want. The more man flies to the moon, the more I want to look at a tree. Votes: 0

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it. Votes: 0

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you. Votes: 0

Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies. Votes: 0

The more we lose, the more he'll fly in. And the more he flies in, the better the chance there'll be a plane crash. Votes: 0

You couldn't hurt a fly." Actually I was pretty good at pinging flies right out of the air, but I tried to look appropriately harmless. Votes: 0

What if, when this fog scatters and flies upward, the whole rotten, slimey city goes with it, rises with the fog and vanishes like smoke. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

One meal a day is enough for a lion and would be for all of us if all we did all day was swat flies. Votes: 0

Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education. Votes: 0

For every great temptation there will be many small ones. Wolves and bears are more dangerous than flies, but we are bothered most by flies. Votes: 0

The bird Imagination, That flies so far, that dies so soon; Her wings are colored like the sun, Her breast is colored like the moon. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies! Votes: 0

I want to smash this concrete world into oblivion. I want to be bigger, better, stronger. I want to be the bird that flies away. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress...feet on the floor and your knees together girl...You are trying to catch a husband, not flies ! Votes: 0

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. Votes: 0

Whenever I was upset by something in the papers, Jack always told me to be more tolerant, like a horse flicking away flies in the summer. Votes: 0

Fast fading violets cover'd up in leaves; And mid-May's eldest child, The coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine, The murmurous haunt of flies on summer eves. Votes: 0

According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring these laws, the bee flies anyway. Votes: 0

Either a peaceful old age awaits me, or death flies round me with black wings. [Lat., Seu me tranquilla senectus Exspectat, seu mors atris circumvolat alis.] Votes: 0

As a bee without harming the flower, its colour or scent, flies away, collecting only the honey, even so should the sage wander in the village. Votes: 0

Innocence ain't all it's cracked up to be, you know. Innocent little kids rip the wings off flies, because they don't know any better. That's innocence Votes: 0

And if you say a word about this over the radio, the next wings you see will belong to the flies buzzing over your rotting corpse. Votes: 0

The stealth bomber is supposed to be a big deal. It flies in undetected, bombs, then flies away. Hell, I've been doing that all my life. Votes: 0

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies. Votes: 0

I will fly in the greatness of God as the marsh-hen flies, In the freedom that fills all the space 'twixt the marsh and the skies. Votes: 0

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune. Votes: 0

...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... Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? Votes: 0

Our life is our own to-day, to-morrow you will be dust, a shade, and a tale that is told. Live mindful of death; the hour flies. Votes: 0

It has been said of garlic that everyone knows its odor save he who has eaten it, and who wonders why everyone flies at his approach. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. Votes: 0

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. Votes: 0

Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time. Votes: 0

My care is like my shadow in the sun, Follows me flying, flies when I pursue it, Stands and lies by me, doth what I have done. Votes: 0

I try to catch flies in cups and put them outside. After I wrote 'The Underland Chronicles'... well, once you start naming cockroaches, you lose your edge. Votes: 0

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press. Votes: 0

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are. Votes: 0

The stormy March has come at last, With winds and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies. Votes: 0

A seagull manager is one who periodically flies into the area, makes a lot of noise, dumps on the people, maybe eats their lunch, and flies away. Votes: 0

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You hurt the ones that I love best and cover up the truth with lies. One day you'll be in the ditch, flies buzzin' around your eyes. Votes: 0

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies. Votes: 0

If we allow our thoughts to arise and dissolve by themselves, they will pass through our mind as a bird flies through the sky, without leaving a trace. Votes: 0

Let your bending in the Archer's hand be for gladness, for even as he loves the arrow that flies, so he loves also the bow that is stable. Votes: 0

A decent cowboy does not take what belongs to someone else and if he does he deserves to be strung up and left for the flies and coyotes Votes: 0

If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God; and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that. Votes: 0

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. Votes: 0

The aesthetic discussion of photography is dominated by the concept of time. Photographs appear as devices stopping time and preserving fragments of the past, like flies in amber. Votes: 0

I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and yell, 'Whoa, I'm way too high!' Votes: 0

If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that. Votes: 0

She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies. Votes: 0

You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. Votes: 0

When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball. Votes: 0

One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. Votes: 0

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same. Votes: 0

Experience unveils too late the snares laid for youth; it is the white frost which discovers the spider's web when the flies are no longer there to be caught. Votes: 0

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing. Votes: 0

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

[Nixon] wants a massive bombing campaign in Cambodia . He doesn't want to hear anything about it. It's an order, to be done. Anything that flies on anything that moves. Votes: 0

Jacks are home runs. So are dongs, bombs, and big flies. Baseball people express their fondness for a thing by thinking up lots of different ways to say it. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I have found, whether you have a tiny business or a big business, if you don't jump on something right away, it's like a bird flying by-it flies off. Votes: 0

Why people wanted to dance whenever it got dark was beyond him. Somehow, the two seemed to go together, like bees and flowers, or flies and dung. Darkness and dancing. Votes: 0

The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system. Votes: 0

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology. Votes: 0

Some little pieces of sand are so full of ego that they see themselves as a giant rock! But then the wind blows, the big ego flies in the air! Votes: 0

Wine, like the rising sun, possession gains, And drives the mist of dullness from the brains, The gloomy vapor from the spirit flies, And views of gaiety and gladness rise. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Love, as is told by the seers of old, Comes as a butterfly tipped with gold, Flutters and flies in sunlit skies, Weaving round hearts that were one time cold. Votes: 0

Curious that it is impossible for a man to be original without attracting around him a set of unoriginal minds, as though he were a honey-pot and they the flies! Votes: 0

If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher. Votes: 0

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies. Votes: 0

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! Votes: 0

My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies. Votes: 0

No man is infinitely strong; for every creature that runs, flies, hops or crawls there is a terminal nemesis which he will not circumvent, which will finally do him in. Votes: 0

Place (or put) a spider on top of a mountain, it will only try to catch flies; alas, they are many those who, in the figurative meaning, have spider's eyes. Votes: 0

Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing. Votes: 0

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood. Votes: 0

You are sweet, O Love, dear Love,You are soft as the nesting dove.Come to my heart and bring it restAs the bird flies home to its welcome nest. Votes: 0

When satire flies abroad on falsehood's wing, Short is her life, and impotent her sting; But when to truth allied, the wound she gives Sinks deep, and to remotest ages lives. Votes: 0

The American obsession with 'Downton' amuses me slightly because it's such a fiction. I've always been questioned about my historical veracity, and 'Downton' just flies past, when it's completely made up. Votes: 0

These $40 burgers with foie gras and truffles and all of that flies in the face of one of the most proletarian foods around. It's overpriced, overdone and just not worth it. Votes: 0

The sickness of the mother runs on through the girl, leaving her small and helpless. Liquor flies through her brain with the force of a gun, leaving her running in circles. Votes: 0

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter. Votes: 0

Time flies. Time flies faster every year. Time flies whether you're having fun or not, whether you're living your life big or small, whether you surround yourself with fear or laughter." Votes: 0

Live loath'd and long, Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites, Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears, You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks. Votes: 0

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. Votes: 0

Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect. Votes: 0

I sometimes look into the face of my dog Stan and see a wistful sadness and existential angst, when all he is actually doing is slowly scanning the ceiling for flies. Votes: 0

Every day as it comes should be welcomed and reduced forthwith into our own possession as if it were the finest day imaginable. What flies past has to be seized at. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I want to be like Tom Freston. Tom just flies around everywhere, gets to make movies, gets to start TV shows, hang out with cool people and do whatever he wants. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

This notion that it is up to each person to innovation in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. Votes: 0

When you search for happiness, it flies away.When you serve others, you will find the way.When you share blessings and express kindness,You will find the source of enduring happiness. Votes: 0

Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.' My relatives seem to drop like flies around me. Who's next? Will it be someone I can't stand? Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways. Votes: 0

Anything good has a magical power! Say something good; it travels around the world without legs; do something good, it flies around the world without wings! Everything good has a mystical power! Votes: 0

Flow is being completely involved in an activity for its own sake. The ego falls away. Time flies. Every action, movement, and thought follows inevitably from the previous one, like playing jazz. Votes: 0

The dimension of depth in the consciousness of religion creates the tension between what is and what ought to be. It bends the bow from which every arrow of moral action flies. Votes: 0

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall. Votes: 0

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. Votes: 0

They say that "he who flies highest, falls farthest" — and who am I to argue? But we can't forget that "he who doesn't flap his wings, never flies at all. Votes: 0

Every animal that walks the earth, or swims, or flies is precious beyond description, something so rare and wonderful that it equals the stars or the ocean or the mind of man. Votes: 0

The very dogs were all asleep, and the flies, drunk with moist sugar in the grocer's shop, forgot their wings and briskness, and baked to death in dusty corners of the window. Votes: 0

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly. Votes: 0

To do something that will just fly away is kind of special. Every time somebody tell you they love you, that "I love you" flies away, and you wait until the next one. Votes: 0

Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man. Votes: 0

During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable. Votes: 0

We have to believe that everything has a cause, as the spider spins its web in order to catch flies. But it does this before it knows there are such things as flies. Votes: 0

We have already done so much that people call dynamics. Look at the bumblebee being unaware of scientific truths, goes ahead and flies anyway. If it is possible, we will do it here. Votes: 0

Lull'd in the countless chambers of the brain, Our thoughts are link'd by many a hidden chain; Awake but one, and lo, what myriads rise! Each stamps its image as the other flies! Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas. Votes: 0

On Sunday, the president flies to the Azores islands to attend a summit with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Spanish Prime Minister Jose Aznar, and here's my prediction: Bush gets voted off. Votes: 0

Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood. Votes: 0

There's a metaphor Vincent Eades likes to use: "If you examine a butterfly according to the laws of aerodynamics, it shouldn't be able to fly. But the butterfly doesn't know that, so it flies. Votes: 0

I think about my mother every day. But usually the thoughts are fleeting - she crosses my mind like a spring cardinal that flies past the edge of your eye: startling, luminous, lovely... gone. Votes: 0

A collection of short stories is generally thought to be a horrendous clinker; an enforced courtesy for the elderly writer who wants to display the trophies of his youth, along with his trout flies. Votes: 0

Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back? Votes: 0

Truth: We are the present. We are now. We are the razor's edge of history. The future flies at us and from that dark blur we shape the past. And the past is forever. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

We come to a lamp beside the pathway, and suddenly we stop walking, and we start to dance, and we glitter in the shafts of light, like stars, like flies, like flakes of dust. Votes: 0

Attracting musicians is rather like inviting flies over to tea: they are tolerable for half an hour, but when they begin to touch the food, you either wish they would go home or die. Votes: 0

There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke. Votes: 0

Time flies, though, huh? But I feel young. And do you know how I stay feeling young, ladies and gentlemen? I'll share my secret with you: I live in a senior citizen retirement community. Votes: 0

Like our attitude to love, truth and goodness, we seem to be confident about knowing what beauty is - certain, even dogmatic - until we think hard about the idea, whereupon all confidence flies away. Votes: 0

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again. Votes: 0

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl of water and a 'cloop!' and the May-fly was visible no more Votes: 0

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!One thing at least is certain - This Life flies;One thing is certain and the rest is Lies -The Flower that once has blown forever dies. Votes: 0

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The other claims that when money ebbs, so do prospects for women. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Thank you for inviting me to your house, but I prefer to dine in the Greek restaurant at Wabash Avenue and 12th Street where I will be limited to finding dead flies in my soup. Votes: 0

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment. Votes: 0

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her. Votes: 0

When you're engaged in what you love to do, it's like driving in the fast lane. Time flies by and more roads open up to you, alternate routes you may not have even known existed. Votes: 0

Maybe you reach a certain point in evolution where boredom is the greatest threat to your survival. Maybe this isn't a planetary takeover at all, but a game. Like a kid pulling wings off flies. Votes: 0

Our heart wanders lost in the dark woods. Our dream wrestles in the castle of doubt. But there's music in us. Hope is pushed down but the angel flies up again taking us with her." Votes: 0

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland. Votes: 0

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow Votes: 0

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly. Votes: 0