Quotes with flies

  • 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.

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  • Benjamin Franklin A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Abraham Lincoln ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 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
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Tommy Lasorda Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.
    Tommy Lasorda
    American Baseball player (1927 - 2021)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Brihadaranyaka Upanishad As an eagle, weary after soaring in the sky, folds its wings and flies down to rest in its nest, so does the shining Self enter the state of dreamless sleep, where one is freed from all desires.
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  • William Shakespeare As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ben Jonson Follow a shadow, it still flies you;
    Seem to fly it, it will pursue:
    So court a mistress, she denies you;
    Let her alone, she will court you.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio That Women Are But Mens Shadows, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Charles Churchill Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
    Charles Churchill
    British poet (1731 - 1764)
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  • William Blake He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake He who kisses the joy as it flies
    Lives in eternity’s sunrise.
    Eternity
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ogden Nash Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures - take them, George, they're yours!
    Ogden Nash
    American poet (1902 - 1971)
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  • Bertolt Brecht High above the lake a bomber flies.
    From the rowing boats
    Children look up, women, an old man. From a distance
    They appear like young starlings, their beaks
    Wide open for food.
    Poems, 1913-1956 This Summers Sky [Der Himmel dieses Sommers], (195
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Stanislaw Jerzy Lec Intelligence, in diapers, is invisible. And when it matures, out the window it flies. We have to pounce on it earlier.
    Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
    Polish writer (1909 - 1966)
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  • Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Ben Affleck 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.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Friedrich von Schiller The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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