#flies

There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window. ↗

— Charles de Montesquieu

#does #door #find #flies #fortune

Two years work wasted, I have been breeding those flies for all that time and I've got nothing out of it. ↗

— Thomas Hunt Morgan

#breeding #flies #got #i #nothing

I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimental protocols published in Scientific American, and I also remember making my own beetle collection when it was still acceptable to make such collections. ↗

— Paul Nurse

#also #american #beetle #collection #collections

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#diversion #flies #his #just #pop

He who flies can also return; but it is not so with him who dies. ↗

— Paul Scarron

#dies #flies #him #return #who

And I always think of life like a giant wave. You know, it rises and it crests and it flies, and it's just magnificent, and then it crashes. And for a lot of people, when it crashes, that's the end, and they go down the deep, dark hole of depression. ↗

— Jane Seymour

#crashes #dark #deep #depression #down

Money just draws flies. ↗

— Mahalia Jackson

#flies #just #money

I think there's something in the human psyche that we're titillated by the person who flies too close to the candle and their wings get singed. ↗

— Jeffrey Combs

#close #flies #get #human #human psyche

You tell me you love me, but I’m not sure you know what love is, or how fast it flies, or how much it resembles a UFO, or what kind of weapon you’d use to shoot it down. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#aliens #extra-terrestrial #flies #fly #flying

The butterflies have flown away, like my ignorance and youth. ↗

— Eileen Granfors

#coming-of-age #mariposas #age