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12 Quotes for 'Flies' in the Database.
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Flies Quotes
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We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in
amber, a more than royal tomb.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Historia Vitoe et Mortis
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It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree
of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Of Vain Glory, attributed to Aesop but found in "Fables" of Laurentius Abstemius
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We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in
amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body
of any king.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Sylvia Sylvarum (century I, experiment 100)
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss
for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt,
and for the bee that is in the land of Assyria.
Author: Bible
Source: Isaiah (ch. VII, v. 18)
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Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you.
[Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
Source: Don Quixote (II, 43)
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The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
Author: John Gay
Source: The Beggar's Opera (act II, sc. 2, l. 35)
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To a boyling pot flies comes not.
[To a boiling pot flies come not.]
Author: George Herbert
Source: Jacula Prudentum
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I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
Author: Robert Herrick
Source: The Amber Bead
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A fly sat on the chariot wheel
And said "what a dust I raise."
Author: Jean de la Fontaine
Source: Fables (bk. VII, 9)
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Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
Drink with me and drink as I!
Freely welcome to my cup,
Could'st thou sip and sip it up;
Make the most of life you may;
Life is short and wears away.
Author: William Oldys
Source: The Fly
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Baby bye
Here's a fly,
Let us watch him, you and I,
How he crawls
Up the walls
Yet he never falls.
Author: Theodore Tilton
Source: Baby Bye
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Oh! that the memories which survive us here
Were half so lovely as these wings of thine!
Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine
Now thou art gone.
Author: Charles Tennyson Turner
Source: On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
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