Learning To 'Fly'

When in doubt, duck. - Malcolm Forbes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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