Quotation Explorer - '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.
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. - Michelle Franklin
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. - William Shakespeare
Even the caged bird flies out when someone opens the door for it - Andrea L'Artiste
I knelt in front of life, folded my hands and prayed for some more time; there couldn't be any. My heart bled and so did my tearful eyes.Time, they say, flies, but I saw it slowly passing by taking each of my tardy breaths with it as it walked out of my life... - Sanhita Baruah
Bring wings to the weak and bring grace to the strongMay all evil stumble as it flies in the worldAll the tribes comes and the mighty will crumbleWe must brave this night and have faith in love - Janelle Monáe
(Parody that is often falsely believed to be a true quote of Mariah Carey's) Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. - MAD Magazine
He who binds himself to joy Doth the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in Eternity's sunrise. - William Blake
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport. - William Shakespeare
When you are alone, bless the solitude; when you are with someone, bless the togetherness! Think of the seagull: It flies alone happily; it flies with another happily too! Solitude is a food; togetherness is a food; man needs both and he must be happy with both! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Did we really come all that way?" She asked. "Time flies when you're scared out of your mind." He answered. - Nights Raven
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through. - Jonathan Swift
Be careful not to laugh at the Phoenix when she goes up in flames, or you'll be left in the dust when she grows her new wings and flies swiftly away. - Cristen Rodgers
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
Critics do not determine how high an eagle flies. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A spider is slow, but its web catches the fastest flies. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It's Sunday, yesterday was Saturday, before Saturday was Friday 3.18.2016 - I'm 16 and soon I will be 17, the times flies. We can't stop it, but we can be wise and use it in clever way! - Deyth Banger
A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographic Society could not improve. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind. - Nathaniel Hawthorne
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. - Debasish Mridha
Tranquil breeze Glittering beach Dancing water Bluest skyMy mind flies high with joyful laughter. - Debasish Mridha
Good night! Good night!Far flies the light;But still God's loveShall shine above,Making all bright,Good night! Good night! - Victor Hugo
Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings. - Victor J. Stenger
Yet ah! why should they know their fate, Since 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
If time flies when you're having fun, it hits the afterburners when you don't think you're having enough. - Jef Mallett
My favourite conversations are those with the universe, I speak all that I am and the most beautiful response flies a shooting star across the sky, it's proof ~ vibrations of light have the capacity to change our world. - Nikki Rowe
A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings. - William Blake
times flies and people change..!!! thats the shitty thing about this world. - usman ahmad
When excellence comes in at the door, failure flies out the window. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Time flies by so fast, I wish I can go back - Donna Liu
You just go a little crazy, you know. Sometimes. And why? Well only because your soul is just too big for you, it flies away somehow. - C. JoyBell C.
A man dies when hope flies. - Debasish Mridha
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
A spoken word is not a sparrow. Once it flies out, you can't catch it. - Russian Proverb
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. - Elizabeth I
When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies. - Kelseyleigh Reber
In a surreal gift from the universe, time both stands still and flies past you in that singular moment when you find out someone you once loved is gone. - Rachel Thompson
An anniversary is where you look back at having either fulfilled Cinderella or Lord of the Flies. - Fernando A. Torres
A heart with love flies like a dove in the sky of beauty and kindness. - Debasish Mridha
A closed mouth catches no flies. - Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Kevin was sitting on the railing waiting patiently and looking up at the sky with his mouth agape in a totally comical way. Kayn walked up beside him and teased, Trying to catch flies? (The Children of Ankh series) - Kim Cormack
Where love is the light, love is the way. Happiness is there; sadness flies away. - Debasish Mridha
Sometimes we are that fly in the house, that thinks it sees an open window. So it crawls to, or flies head-on into clear glass. At times getting stuck between the storm and pane, it dies in the windowsill under a tormenting, hot sun. - Anthony Liccione
Oh, come with old Khayyàm, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown forever dies. - Omar Khayyám
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! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught. - Honoré de Balzac
Every arrow that flies feels the pull of the earth. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One - Said Nursî
You can catch flies with honey, but you catch more honeys bein fly - Keegan 'Straight Barz' Large
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! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. - Anthony G. Oettinger
Love is like a bird, they flies everywhere, its free, but its hard to trust someone where they like to stay. - Erico Quiambao
Our imagination flies -- we are its shadow on the earth. - Vladimir Nabokov
Love flies, runs, and rejoices; it is free and nothing can hold it back. - Thomas a Kempis
Time is fun when you're eating flies.
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!'
You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. - Gilles Deleuze
Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America. - Michael Stipe
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. - Voltaire
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! - Marie Corelli
If it has got four legs and it is not a chair, if it has got two wings and it flies but is not an aeroplane, and if it swims and it is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it. - Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Wings can only flyas long as the bird flies Soul blackens when you put on vestment of lies White candle wax criesfor ignitable wickJealous people burnto make your heart feel sick - Munia Khan
times flies and people change..! thats the shitty thing about this world. - usman ahmad
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings. - William Shakespeare
Sadness flies on the wings of the morning, and out of the heart of darkness comes the light. - Jean Giraudoux
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