Flies And The Devil Quotes & Sayings

A little bit of everything you admire eventually rubs off on you. — Alan Dean Foster

A witch is a causal theory of explanation. And it's fair to say that if your causal theory to explain why bad things happen is that your neighbor flies around on a broom and cavorts with the devil at night, inflicting people, crops, and cattle with disease, preventing cows from giving milk, beer from fermenting, and butter from churning - and that the proper way to cure the problem is to burn her at the stake - then either you are insane or you lived in Europe six centuries ago, and you even had biblical support, specifically Exodus 22:18: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. — Michael Shermer

The Wolf trots to and fro,
The world lies deep in snow,
The raven from the birch tree flies,
But nowhere a hare, nowhere a roe,
The roe -she is so dear, so sweet -
If such a thing I might surprise
In my embrace, my teeth would meet,
What else is there beneath the skies?
The lovely creature I would so treasure,
And feast myself deep on her tender thigh,
I would drink of her red blood full measure,
Then howl till the night went by.
Even a hare I would not despise;
Sweet enough its warm flesh in the night.
Is everything to be denied
That could make life a little bright?
The hair on my brush is getting grey.
The sight is failing from my eyes.
Years ago my dear mate died.
And now I trot and dream of a roe.
I trot and dream of a hare.
I hear the wind of midnight howl.
I cool with the snow my burning jowl,
And on to the devil my wretched soul I bear. — Hermann Hesse

He was a vampire now. He was supposed to have eternity. But what he had was days. — Cassandra Clare

You never walk alone. Even the devil is the lord of flies. — Gilles Deleuze

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not. — Saint Augustine

We believe in all truth, no matter to what subject it may refer. No sect or religious denomination [or, I may say, no searcher of truth] in the world possesses a single principle of truth that we do not accept or that we will reject. We are willing to receive all truth, from whatever source it may come; for truth will stand, truth will endure. — Joseph F. Smith

The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too. — S. Truett Cathy

Then when I saw Pain attack Hinata, I was so mad, so full of rage, I let the Nine-Tails take over without even thinking about it. — Masashi Kishimoto

There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good. — Garth Hudson

It's because when we sneeze, our soul flies out our nose and if no one says 'bless you,' the devil can snatch it. — Kelley Armstrong

It amazes me how people are often more willing to act based on little or no data than to use data that is a challenge to assemble. — Robert J. Shiller

Clarity is the politeness of the man of letters. — Jules Renard

A man might as well hope to fight a swarm of flies with a sword as to master his own thoughts when they are set on by the devil. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I didn't know why, or who, but I could buy those answers with money and time. One, I had plenty of. The other, I'd have to manufacture. — C.D. Reiss