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Laws catch flies, but let hornets go.
Laws, like the spider's web, catch the fly and let the hawk go free.
Let each person drive away his own wasps.
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.
BibleSource: Isaiah 51:6
Like a moth in clothing, or a maggot in wood, sorrow gnaws at the human heart.
BibleSource: Proverbs 25: 20
Like flies on shit.
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir NabokovLouse.
A mean or despicable person.Lousy with money.
Abundantly supplied with money.Lousy.
Nasty, unpleasant, inferior, worthless, bad.Love is like a butterfly, hold it to tight it will crush, hold it to loose, it will fly.
Make yourself all honey and the flies will devour you.
Many ants kill a camel.
Money begets money, and fleas beget fleas.
More courtship lives in carrion flies than Romeo.
William ShakespeareSource: 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.
BibleSource: Exodus 8:29
Most Internet users seem to have the attention span of grasshoppers.
Stephen KingMoth-eaten.
Oldfashioned ; out of date (e.g. motheaten ideas).Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
Charles DickensSaid by Estella in 'Great Expectations'.
Nits make lice.
(unknown author)No bees, no honey; no work, no money.
No flies get into a shut mouth.
No flies land on a boiling pot.
No fly dares to get near a boiling kettle.
None preaches better than the ant, and she says nothing.
Nothing in haste but catching fleas.
Nothing should be done in a hurry except catching fleas.
Nothing should be done in haste but gripping a flea.
Of these you may eat any kind of locust, katydid, cricket or grasshopper. But all other winged creatures that have four legs you are to detest.
BibleSource: Leviticus 11
Old bees yield no honey.
One bee is as good as a handful of flies.
One bee is better than a thousand flies.
One bee makes no honey; one grain makes no rice soup.
One beetle knows another.
One beetle recognizes another.
One can't give a grasshopper to a child if one has not caught it yet.
One catches more flies with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar.
One chafer knows another.
One dead fly spoils much good ointment.
One finger alone cannot even kill a louse.
One thumb alone does not kill a louse.
One tiny insect may be enough to destroy a country.
Only fleas are to be caught quickly.
People seek out big shots as flies seek out the elephant's tail.
Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught, some fly away.
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