Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

    I don’t know why I ever come in here. The flies get the best of everything.
    Otis Criblecoblis, U.S. screenwriter. W.C. Fields (W.C. Fields)

    Love to chawnk green apples an’ go swimmin’ in the
    lake.—
    Hate to take the castor-ile they give for belly-ache!
    ‘Most all the time, the whole year round, there ain’t no flies on
    me,
    But jest ‘fore Christmas I’m as good as I kin be!
    Eugene Field (1850–1895)

    fear like a dog stuffed in my mouth,
    fear like dung stuffed up my nose,
    fear where water turns into steel,
    fear as my breast flies into the Disposall,
    fear as flies tremble in my ear,
    fear as the sun ignites in my lap ...
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)