| "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana." »Lisa Grossman |
| "A closed mouth catches no flies." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "As flies to wanton boys, are we to the godsThey kill us for their sport." »William Shakespeare |
| "Love flies, runs, and rejoices it is free and nothing can hold it back." »Thomas a Kempis |
| "Laws, like the spider's webs, catch the flies and let the hawk go free." »Danish proverb |
| "A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I never could find amusement in killing flies." »Jeanne-Marie Roland |
| "Dum loquimur invida aetas fugerit. (While we talk, hostile time flies away)" »Horace |
| "Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day." »Bertrand Russell |
| "Love, free as air at sight of human ties, Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies." »Alexander Pope |
| "Yet ah why should they know their fateSince sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies.Thought would destroy their paradise.No more where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise." »Thomas Gray |
| "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." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God." »Ambrose of Milan |
| "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." »William Blake |
| "True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings." »William Shakespeare |
| "Whenever I need to get away,'' I just get away in my mind. I go to my imaginary spot, where the beach is perfect and the water is perfect and the weather is perfect. The only bad thing there are the flies. They're terrible" »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "'Tis said of love that it sometimes goes, sometimes flies runs with one, walks gravely with another turns a third into ice, and sets a fourth in a flame it wounds one, another it kills like lightning it begins and ends in the same moment it makes that fort yield at night which it besieged but in the morning for there is no force able to resist it." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that." »E. B. White |
| "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' 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 that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln |
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