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The Fly

«All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.»
«Back fusions are like killing a fly on the windowpane with a sledgehammer. The fly is dead, but you've also broken the glass.»
«Celibacy, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites»
«The fly that prefers sweetness to a long life may drown in honey»
«The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.»
Author: John Gay (Dramatist, Poet) | Keywords: sips, sweets, The Fly, treacle
«The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets, So he that tastes woman, woman, woman; He that tastes woman, ruin meets»
«God in his wisdom made the fly and then forgot to tell us why»
Author: Ogden Nash (Writer) | Keywords: The Fly