Famous quotes containing the words fly and/or lines:
“The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“The opera isn’t over till the fat lady sings.”
—Anonymous.
A modern proverb along the lines of “don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched.” This form of words has no precise origin, though both Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations (16th ed., 1992)