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54 quotesThere is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
Beauty
R. Buckminster Fuller
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Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
Sleep
William Golding
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I turn and turn in my cell like a fly that doesn't know where to die.
Prison
Antonio Gramsci
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The are of will-making chiefly consists in baffling the importunity of expectation.
Inheritance
William Hazlitt
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Catching a fly ball is a pleasure, but knowing what to do with it is a business.
Baseball
Tommy Henrich
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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.
Courage
William Henry Hudson
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.
Dreams
Langston Hughes
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Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.
Intelligence and Intellectuals
John Maynard Keynes
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Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.
Riches
Charles Lamb
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The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Cunning
Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Old age is like flying through a storm. Once you're aboard, there's nothing you can do.
Age and Aging
Golda Meir
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Faith
H. L. Mencken
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Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives.
Adultery
Marilyn Monroe
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My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Theology
Christopher Morley
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Love Ended
Iris Murdoch
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
Optimism
George Jean Nathan
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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Expectation
Edgar Allan Poe
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Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!
Credit
Alexander Pope
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Who breaks a butterfly on a wheel?
Exaggeration
Alexander Pope
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Why has not man a microscopic eye? For the plain reason man is not a fly.
Eyes
Alexander Pope
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When a heart is on fire, sparks always fly out of the mouth.
Persuasion
Proverb
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
Arts and Artists
Pierre Auguste Renoir
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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the sky.
Poetry and Poets
Carl Sandburg
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Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes.
Attitude
Charles Prestwich Scott
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A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.
Public Opinion
Germaine De Stael
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun