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15 quotesI shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Silence
Samuel Beckett
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We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.
Leisure
Gerald Brenan
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Half-starved spiders prey'd on half-starved flies.
Famine
Charles Churchill
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Do what we can, summer will have its flies.
Science and Scientists
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar.
Tact and Tactfulness
Benjamin Franklin
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A closed mouth catches no flies.
Speakers and Speaking
French Proverb
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More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
Persuasion
French Proverb
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Even the lion has to defend himself against flies.
Critics and Criticism
German Proverb
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A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend.
Instinct
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
Time and Time Management
Robert Orben
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Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Words
Platen
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An eagle does not catch flies.
Animals
Proverb
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When poverty comes in the door love flies out the window.
Poverty and The Poor
Proverb
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
The future
Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.
Life and Death
William Shakespeare
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun