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«A woman is like your shadow - follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows»
Author: Chamfort | About: Men and Women | Keywords: flies
«A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.»
Author: Horace (Poet) | About: Words | Keywords: abroad, flies, irrevocably, sent
«Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle, a thing that flies.»
«Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!»
«He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sunrise»
«If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what you will, is the great high-road to his reason, and which, when once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing his judgment of the justice of your cause.»
«A closed mouth catches no flies»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: catches, closed, flies, mouth
«A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.»
«Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts, let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.»
«As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.»