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)

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to th’ gods;
They kill us for their sport.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“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)