Quotes on Flies

Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.

Author: Honore Balzac

A closed mouth catches no flies.

Author: Miguel Cervantes

I don't know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.

Author: Otis Criblecoblis

Cool things happen. Ace's guitar flies through space, goes through a hole, and blows up. I throw drumsticks and they come flying at you.

Author: Peter Criss

If you take one rivet out of an airplane, it will be all right, it'll keep flying. You take another rivet out of the airplane and it still flies. So what the heck, let's take more rivets out of the airplane, and sooner or later, the airplane drops from the sky.

Author: Ted Danson

This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot! Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I think I'm like in one of my own pictures.

Author: Danny DeVito

To sleep after sunrise was impossible on account of the number of flies which kept buzzing about the face.

Author: George Grey

A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.

Author: Horace

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.

Author: Jackie Kennedy

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away.

Author: Tommy Lasorda

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back.

Author: Henri Matisse

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.

Author: Jean Paul

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.

Author: Jackie Robinson

He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies.

Author: Paul Scarron

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

Author: Jonathan Swift

Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.

Author: Isaac Watts

I was much entertained last summer with a tame bat, which would take flies out of a person's hand.

Author: Gilbert White

It's almost like you see too much, because when it happens for real, everything flies at you so fast, you never get a sense of the ice and where everyone is at that one moment.

Author: Steve Yzerman