Food Quotes about Flies
“Tart Words make no Friends: a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than Gallon of Vinegar.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ‘Poor Richard's Almanac’
“...instead of offering me a Garibaldi biscuit, she asked me with that faint lisp of hers, to 'have some squashed flies, George'.”
H.G. Wells in 'Tono-Bungay' (1909)
"Aioli (garlic mayonnaise) epitomizes the heat, the power, and the joy of the Provençal sun, but it has another virtue - it drives away flies."
Frédéric Mistral (1891)
“The busy Man has few idle Visitors; to the boiling Pot the Flies come not.”
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) ‘Poor Richard's Almanac’
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