Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

“People are inexterminable—like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices—that’s us.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)

“But chief to heedless flies the window proves
A constant death; where gloomily retired,
The villain spider lives, cunning and fierce,
Mixture abhorred! Amid a mangled heap
Of carcases in eager watch he sits,
O’erlooking all his waving snares around.”
—James Thomson (1700–1748)

“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)