Top Flies Quotes
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare
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
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
Time flies never to be recalled.
Virgil
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
Voltaire 
Ivan Turgenev 
Paul Nurse 
Paul Scarron 
Honore De Balzac 
Jean de La Fontaine 
Donald Fagen 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 
William Blake 
Thomas Hunt Morgan All Flies Quotes
As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
William Shakespeare 
71% of people like this quote
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
61% of people like this quote
Time sometimes flies like a bird, sometimes crawls like a snail; but a man is happiest when he does not even notice whether it passes swiftly or slowly.
Ivan Turgenev
60% of people like this quote
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
57% of people like this quote
That fallacy flies in the face of studies that show, every day, in every way, things are getting a little worse for America's minorities relative to the progress made by those in the top percentiles of assets and income.
Harold Washington
57% of people like this quote
Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.
Jackie Robinson
56% of people like this quote
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
55% of people like this quote
Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught.
Honore De Balzac
55% of people like this quote
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