Learning To 'Fly'

When in doubt, duck. - Malcolm Forbes

All our geese are swans. - Robert Burton

Shoot folly as it flies. - Alexander Pope

A closed mouth catches no flies. - French Proverb

When turkeys mate they think of swans. - Johnny Carson

A kite only flies if it's tethered. - Victor Robert Lee

Goose Bumps: To keep geese from speeding - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The common people swarm like summer flies. - William Shakespeare

One man's goose is another man's dander. - Archie Bunker

Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo. - Groucho Marx

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. - English Proverb

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial. - Thomas Fuller

Ego: the fallacy whereby a goose thinks he's a swan. - Oscar Levant

You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. - Unknown

Laws, like spider webs, catch flies and let hawks go free. - Spanish Proverb

You know, I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters. - Groucho Marx

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck. - Walter Cronkite

When grandparents enter the door, discipline flies out the window. - Ogden Nash

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose. - Clarence Darrow

A goose flies by a chart the Royal Geographical Society could not improve. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

He writes so well he makes me feel like putting the quill back in the goose. - Fred Allen

Not the cry, but the flight of a wild duck, leads the flock to fly and follow. - Chinese Proverb

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath. - Michael Caine

He who waits for a roast duck to fly into his mouth must wait a very, very long time. - Chinese Proverb

One only needs two tools in life: WD-40 to make things go, and duck tape to make them stop. - G.M. Weilacher

Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married. - Unknown

Tart words make no friends: A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. - Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies. - Francois Fenelon

When I lived in Delhi, I used to visit the Lodhi Gardens and feed the pigeons, crows, and ducks there. - Sangram Singh

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pate. - Margaret Atwood

I walk like a duck: very straight up and down. Or like a penguin. It's a dead giveaway that I'm a dancer. - David Hallberg

Be like a duck, paddling and working very hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling and calm face. - Manoj Arora

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
So just what are time flies, and why do they fly like an arrow? - Groucho Marx

The man who invented the zip fastener was today honoured with a lifetime peerage. He will now be known as the Lord of the Flies. - Ronnie Corbett

The English eat all sorts of birds - pigeons, ducks, sparrows - but if you tell them you eat puffin, you might as well come from Mars. - Bjork

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies?
There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. - Groucho Marx

We're having something a little different this year for Thanksgiving. Instead of a turkey, we're having a swan. You get more stuffing. - George Carlin

Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix them together. After one taste, you'll duck soup for the rest of your life. - Groucho Marx

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. - Nathaniel Hawthorne