Definition of Flies - BrainyQuote

Flies Quotations

As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare

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

Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same.
Voltaire

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

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

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

A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Time flies over us, but leaves it shadow behind.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

A closed mouth catches no flies.
Miguel De Cervantes