Fly in your eye? This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about flies.
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One bee is better than a thousand flies.
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar.
One dead fly spoils much good ointment.
People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail.
The biting fly gets nothing by alighting on the back of the tortoise.
The biting fly has no one to come to his aid in trouble.
The busy fly is in every man's dish.
The buzzing of the flies does not turn them into bees.
The eagle does not catch flies.
The eagle does not feed on flies.
The flight of the eagle will not stop that of the sand fly.
The fly does not kill, but it does spoil.
The fly flutters around the candle till at last it gets burnt.
The fly flutters around the candle till it gets burnt.
The fly has no pity for the thin man.
The fly heeds not death; eating is all to him.
The fly on the back of a water buffalo thinks that it's taller than the buffalo.
The fly sat upon the axle of the chariot-wheel and said: 'What a lot of dust I raise!'
The fly sat upon the axle of the chariot-wheel and said: 'What a lot of dust I raise!'.
The fly that bites the tortoise breaks its beak.
The fly that stands on the carabao's (water buffalo) back thinks that it is taller than the carabao.
The idiot who has his eye on your wife is like a blood sucking fly.
The spider and the fly can't make a deal.
The spiders web lets the rat escape and catches the fly.
There are no flies on him.He is not a fool, he cannot be tricked.
They are flies that are born of a wasp.
To a boiling pot flies come not.
To be as small as a vinegar fly and want to shit like an elephant.Too big for your boots
When a fly does not get up off a dead body, he is buried with it.
When I have spun the web they may take the flies, but not before.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Five Orange Pips
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Where there is butter there are flies.
With honey you can catch more flies than with vinegar.
You can catch more flies with honey than vinegar.
You can catch more flies with molasses than vinegar.
You must lose a fly to catch a trout.
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