“There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.”
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American journalist and author 1937–2005Related quotes
“Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.”
No known citation to Marx. First appears unattributed in mid-1960s logic/computing texts as an example of the difficulty of machine parsing of ambiguous statements. Google Books http://books.google.co.uk/books?client=firefox-a&lr=&as_brr=0&q=%22fruit-flies%22+%22time+flies%22+banana&btnG=Search+Books&as_drrb_is=b&as_minm_is=0&as_miny_is=1900&as_maxm_is=0&as_maxy_is=1970. The Yale Book of Quotations dates the attribution to Marx to a 9 July 1982 net.jokes post on Usenet.
Misattributed
“Science flies men to the moon, religion flies men into buildings.”
In The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason (2009), 59. As attributed on a web page using the quote as a title at web site of Richard Dawkins Foundation.
Variant: Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
“Time flies when you are anxious!”
Unwanted Thoughts Syndrome (2009)
“A verse may finde him, who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
“Let me be dressed fine as I will,
Flies, worms, and flowers, exceed me still.”
Song 22: "Against Pride in Clothes".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“It mocks me as it flies, I know:
All too soon the gleam will go”
Apologia
The Flower of Old Japan and Other Poems (1907), Forest of Wild Thyme
Context: It mocks me as it flies, I know:
All too soon the gleam will go;
Yet I love it and shall love
My dream that brooks no narrower bars
Than bind the darkening heavens above,
My Jack o'Lanthorn of the stars:
Then, I'll follow it no more,
I'll light the lamp: I'll close the door.
“You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies.”
“If the heat doesn’t kill you,” he mused, “the flies surely will.”
Source: The Skin Map (2010), p. 223