#flies

I heard my name associated with the Peter Pan syndrome more than once. But really, what's so wrong with Peter Pan? Peter Pan flies. He is a metaphor for dreams and faith. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#dreams #faith #flies #heard #i

A closed mouth catches no flies. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#closed #flies #mouth

Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#humor #inspirational #funny

When the heart flies out before the understanding, it saves the judgment a world of pains. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#flies #heart #judgment #out #pains

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#africa #african #ancient #any #anything

Managing is like holding a dove in your hand. Squeeze too hard and you kill it, not hard enough and it flies away. ↗

— Tommy Lasorda

#dove #enough #flies #hand #hard

You know what it's like to feel anxious - it's horrible feeling anxious. It's stressful having that feeling, having butterflies in your stomach, even for a day, and you don't sleep at night. ↗

— Damian Lewis

#butterflies #day #even #feel #feeling

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#beard #beautiful #butterflies #failed #full

He who loves, flies, runs, and rejoices; he is free and nothing holds him back. ↗

— Henri Matisse

#back #flies #free #him #holds

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#known #literature #man #passions #sweetest