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Laws are like Cobwebs which may catch small Flies, but let Wasps and Hornets break through.
Jonathan Swift
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
Lynne Cheney
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 closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel de Cervantes
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
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
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx
Time, still as he flies, adds increase to her truth, and gives to her mind what he steals from her youth.
Edward Moore
Look at what we'd kill: Mosquitos and flies. 'Cuz they're pests. Lions and tigers. 'Cuz it's fun! Chickens and pigs. 'Cuz we're hungry. Pheasants and quails. 'Cuz it's fun. And we're hungry. And people. We kill people... 'Cuz they're pests. And it's fun!
George Carlin
People are inexterminable -- like flies and bedbugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices -- that's us.
Robert Frost
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour Improve each moment as it flies Life 's a short summer, man a flower He diesalas how soon he dies.
Samuel Johnson
The gull sees farthest who flies highest.
Richard Bach
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
The victory march will continue until the Palestinian flag flies in Jerusalem and in all of Palestine.
Yasser Arafat
Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
Francis Bacon
O Rose, thou art sick The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.
William Blake
You have to love a nation that celebrates its independence every July 4, not with a parade of guns, tanks, and soldiers who file by the White House in a show of strength and muscle, but with family picnics where kids throw Frisbees, the potato salad gets iffy, and the flies die from happiness. You may think you have overeaten, but it is patriotism.
Erma Bombeck
But Nature flies from the infinite, for the infinite is unending or imperfect, and Nature ever seeks an end.
Aristotle
Mrs. Ape's famous hymn, There ain't no flies on the Lamb of God.
Evelyn Waugh
Time wears all his locks before, Take thy hold upon his forehead; When he flies he turns no more, And behind his scalp is naked. Works adjourn'd have many stays, Long demurs breed new delays.
Robert Southwell
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am speaking is already far from me.
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains.
Laurence Sterne
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