Fly in your eye? This is a collection of proverbs and quotes about flies.
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Flies do not swarm on a new pot.
Flies flock to the lean horse.
Flies go to lean horses.
Flies hunt lean horses.
Flies know well the sweet seller's beard.
Flies never bother a boiling pot.
Flies swarm where there is honey.
Flies will easily fly into the honey; their problem is how to get out.
Flies will never leave the shop of a sweet-maker.
Flies will not land on a boiling pot.
Flies will tickle lions being dead.
Foul-smelling objects swarm with flies.
God in His wisdom made the flyOgden Nash
And then forgot to tell us why.
Source: The Fly
Haste is good only for catching flies.
He beat the creature off with his hands - it was trying to poison him to keep him quiet, as small spiders do to flies - until he remembered his sword and drew it out.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
About Bilbo.
He does not harm a fly.He is kind and gentle
He sent swarms of flies that devoured them, and frogs that devastated them.Bible
Source: Psalms 78:45
He spoke, and there came swarms of flies, and gnats throughout their country.Bible
Source: Psalms 105:31
He would never hurt a fly.He is a very gentle person.
He's a boisterous little boy, but he wouldn't hurt a fly!J.K. Rowling
Source: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Hercule Poirot made vague gestures to rid himself of this human cluster of flies.Agatha Christie
Source: Death on the Nile
Honey catches more flies than vinegar.If you are nice to others you can easily get their cooperation.
Hungry flies bite sore.
If you are looking for a fly in your food it means that you are full.
If you do not let my people go, I will send swarms of flies on you and your officials, on your people and into your houses. The houses of the Egyptians will be full of flies, and even the ground where they are.Bible
Source: Exodus 8:21
In that day the LORD will whistle for flies from the distant streams of Egypt and for bees from the land of Assyria.Bible
Source: Isaiah 7:18
In times of emergency the devil eats flies.
Into a closed mouth no fly will enter.
Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
It is the web, not the spider, that catches the fly.
It was so quiet in there you could have heard a fly fart.Bill Bryson
Source: Lost Continent
It's easier to catch flies with honey than with vinegar.
Laws are like cobwebs where the small flies are caught and the big ones break through.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go free.
Laws catch flies, but let hornets go.
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
Let every one keep off the flies with his own tail.
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, look at the earth beneath; the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment and its inhabitants die like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my righteousness will never fail.Bible
Source: Isaiah 51:6
Like flies on shit.
Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
More courtship lives in carrion flies than Romeo.William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo & Juliet
More flies are caught with a drop of honey than a barrel of vinegar.
More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than a cask of vinegar.
More flies are caught with a spoonful of syrup than with a barrel full of vinegar.
More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
Moses answered, 'As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and tomorrow the flies will leave Pharaoh and his officials and his people.Bible
Source: Exodus 8:29
No flies get into a shut mouth.
No flies land on a boiling pot.
No fly dares to get near a boiling kettle.
One bee is as good as a handful of flies.
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