Flies

"I am perfectly willing to share the room with a fly, as long as he is patrolling that portion of the room I don't occupy. But if he starts that smart-ass fly shit, buzzing my head and repeatedly landing on my arm, he is engaging in high-risk behavior."

"He is an extraordinary animal is the house fly. Go where you will you find him, and so it must have been always. I have seen him enclosed in amber, which is, I was told, quite half a million years old, looking exactly like his descendant of to-day, and I have little doubt but that when the last man lies dying on the earth he will be buzzing round – if this event should happen to occur in summer – watching for an opportunity to settle on his nose."

"God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why."

"Everything was giant-sized, as if I were looking through binoculars. "I" was walking up giant stalks. At first I didn't know what they were or what I was, for that matter. The stalks were tall as redwood trees, and suddenly "I" realized that I was an insect of some kind. This was a grass blade. I thought I was a fly in a gigantic forest -- a giant fly, because everything was so large and super-real, and I;m used to thinking of flies as small. But I was an ordinary fly. I realized, and this was what the world looked like! Oddly enough, this made me feel better, I didn't care what I was; as long as I was something. So I felt myself go up the grass blade. It's impossible to verbalize the sensations I had, but I remember being aware of the weight of my wings. They seemed very sturdy and reassuring."

"King James said to the fly, "Have I three kingdoms, and thou must needs fly into my eye?""

"Flies enter an open mouth."

"Oh! that the memories, which survive us here, Were half so lovely as these wings of thine! Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine Now thou art gone."

"We see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb."

"It was prettily devised of Æsop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise!"

"We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king."

"Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas."

"The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets."

"To a boiling pot flies come not."

"I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried."

"The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt."

"A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise.""

"Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away."

"Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls."