Quotes with fly-swat

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  • Francis Beaumont Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Alice Walker Fiction is such a world of freedom, it's wonderful. If you want someone to fly, they can fly.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Branch Rickey First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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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.
    Source: 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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  • Bertolt Brecht General, man is very useful.
    He can fly and he can kill.
    But he has one defect:
    He can think.
    Source: Poems, 1913-1956
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • William James Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance, and saves the children of fortune from the envious uprisings of the poor.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Benjamin Franklin He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Langston Hughes Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
    Langston Hughes
    American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright and columnist (1901 - 1967)
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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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  • Stephen Hawking I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Douglas Adams I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Winston Churchill I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I never intended to become a professional pilot. But, as I became more curious about aircraft, and, well, not being John Travolta, I realized that the only way I was ever going to fly a jet is if I got a job.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • John Donne I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Antonio Gramsci I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
    Antonio Gramsci
    Italian writer, politician and political scientist (1891 - 1937)
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  • Dave Barry If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to save the infant's life without even considering if there are men on base.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Tom Brokaw If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
    Tom Brokaw
    American television journalist and author (1940 - )
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  • George Winters If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
    George Winters
    American actor
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  • Winston Churchill If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every country. And the atmosphere would be such that anything which attempted to fly would be set on fire.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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