Flies

Famous quotes containing the word flies:

“As flies to wanton boys, are we to th’ gods;
They kill us for their sport.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail
And a few lilies blow.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)

“People are inexterminable—like flies and bed-bugs. There will always be some that survive in cracks and crevices—that’s us.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)