Missed your flight again? Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes about flying.
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A bird is three things: feathers, flight and song, and feathers are the least of these.Marjorie Allen Seiffert
All flying insects that swarm are unclean to you; do not eat them.Bible
Source: Deuteronomy 14
All flying insects that walk on all fours are to be detestable to you.Bible
Source: Leviticus 11
Although the snake does not fly it has caught the bird whose home is in the sky.
Birds of a color fly to the same place.
Even caterpillars can fly if they would just lighten up.
Flies like a butterfly, stings like a bee.(unknown author)
This refers to Mohammad Ali (boxer).
Flying termites fly into the fire.To act on impulse
For long you live and high you flyRoger Waters
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be
He flies into the flame, the summer insect.
I dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?Chuang Tsu
If caterpillars were meant to fly, God would have given them wings.
Into a shut mouth flies fly not.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.Rob Gilbert
Love is like a butterfly, hold it to tight it will crush, hold it to loose, it will fly.
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth.
Off Bilbo had to go, before he could explain that he could not hoot even once like any kind of owl any more than fly like a bat.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 2 - Roast Mutton
Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught, some fly away.
The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.Michael Altshuler
The flight of the eagle will not stop that of the sand fly.
The fly flutters around the candle till at last it gets burnt.
The fly flutters around the candle till it gets burnt.
The locust flies with the wings of a falcon.
The noise of the giant bees flying to and fro and crawling in and out filled all the air.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 7 - Queer Lodgings
About Beorn's bee hives
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.Groucho Marx
Two caterpillars are conversing and a beautiful butterfly floats by. One caterpillar turns and says to the other: 'You'll never see me flying like one of those butterflies.'
We cannot, of course, disprove God, just as we can't disprove Thor, fairies, leprechauns and the Flying Spaghetti Monster.Richard Dawkins
When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remain white but its heart grows black.
When a dove begins to fly with crows, its feathers remains white but its heart grows black.
When the moth flies around the flame, it burns itself to death.
You are like the butterfly that flies from flower to flower.
