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Quotations regarding 'Flies'

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A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
Horace, Roman Poet
Money just draws flies.
Mahalia Jackson, American Musician (1911-1972)
So if you're a robot and you're living on this planet, you can do things that you can't do in real life - things that you wished you could do: like fly; like have a car that flies; like have furniture that is alive.
William Joyce, American Author (1906-1946)
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.
Jackie Kennedy, First Lady (1929-1994)
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 Coach (1927-  )
He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.
Henri Matisse, French Artist (1869-1954)
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.
Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher (1689-1755)
Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
Edward Moore, English Dramatist (1712-1757)
Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it.
Thomas Hunt Morgan, American Scientist (1866-1945)
I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections.
Paul Nurse, British Scientist (1949-  )
Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
Robert Orben, American Entertainer (1927-  )
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.
Jean Paul, German Author (1763-1825)
Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
Li Po, Chinese Poet
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.
Marc Racicot, American Politician (1948-  )
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson, American Athlete (1919-1972)
My criticism is too severe sometimes and that is not good. But why don't you start doing your work unless your leader flies into a rage? It is not that you cannot do it but that you don't want to do it.
Zhu Rongji, Chinese Statesman (1928-  )
He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.
Paul Scarron, French Poet
I love the look of planes and the idea of how a plane flies. The more I learn about it the better I feel; while I still may not like it, I have a sense of what is really happening.
Martin Scorsese, American Director (1942-  )
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare, English Dramatist (1564-1616)
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
Laurence Sterne, Irish Novelist (1713-1768)
 
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