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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Fly |
| We see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. Bacon—Historia Vitæ et Mortis. | 1 |
| It was prettily devised of Æsop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, What a dust do I raise! Bacon—Of Vain-Glory, attributed to Æsop but found in Fables of Laurentius Abstemius. | 2 |
| We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monument and embalming of the body of any king. Bacon—Sylvia Sylvarum. Century I. Experiment 100. | 3 |
| Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas. Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. Cervantes—Don Quixote. II. 43. | 4 |
| The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets. Gay—The Beggar’s Opera. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 35. | 5 |
| To a boiling pot flies come not. Herbert—Jacula Prudentum. | 6 |
| I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. Herrick—The Amber Bead. | 7 |
| The Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermost part of the rivers of Egypt. Isaiah. VII. 18. | 8 |
| A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said “what a dust I raise.” La Fontaine—Fables. Bk. VII. 9. Phædrus. III. 6. Musca et Mula. | 9 |
| Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could’st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away. William Oldys—The Fly. | 10 |
| Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine! Pure relics of a blameless life, that shine Now thou art gone. Charles (Tennyson) Turner—On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book. | 11 |
| Baby bye Here’s a fly, Let us watch him. you and I, How he crawls Up the walls Yet he never falls. Theodore Tilton—Baby Bye. | 12 |
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