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Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes.


Robert Mankoff

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Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.
GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana
GROUCHO MARX Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
UNKNOWN AUTHOR Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.
TERRY WOGAN Two thirds of the genes in humans are found in fruit flies.
DUOJIA PAN Richard wrote a diary entry in his head.

Dear Diary, he began. On Friday I had ...
NEIL GAIMAN Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL RICHTER Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beaut...
JEAN PAUL Make good use of your time, it flies fast.
OVID PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO I had a great time investigating the pigments of different mutant fruit flies by following experimen...
PAUL NURSE Either make the tree food, and his fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and his fruit corrupt...
BIBLE The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies far away. While we are calling for flowers and wi...
JUVENAL If life gives you lemons, pray for fruit, fruit of the Holy Spirit.
N. J. SALAVEENA We went to sites Monday and Tuesday and we didn't find any biting flies. Is it odd? We don't know. W...
GREG JOHNSON Large trees give more shade than fruit
PROVERB Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN When life gives you lemons! Make a fruit salad!
LULU MARES Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and...
FRIDA KAHLO Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues;Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are you suggesting we eat cursed fruit? Vicious fruit? Attacking fruit?
MERRIE HASKELL There may be flies on you and me, but there are no flies on Jesus.
HUNTER S. THOMPSON They just all went down like flies, all six of them.
MYFANWY MARSHALL Spiders’ webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.’ Coraline
NEIL GAIMAN They are like flies. They fly in an out.
MIKE DITKA Oh! that the memories which survive us here Were half so lovely as these wings of thine! Pure...
CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Baby bye Here's a fly, Let us watch him, you and I, How he crawls Up the walls ...
THEODORE TILTON Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Coul...
WILLIAM OLDYS A fly sat on the chariot wheel And said "what a dust I raise."
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.
ROBERT HERRICK To a boyling pot flies comes not. [To a boiling pot flies come not.]
GEORGE HERBERT The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.
JOHN GAY Make yourself honey and the flies will devour you. [Sp., Haceos miel, y paparos han moscas.]
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall hiss for the fly that is in the uttermos...
BIBLE We see how flies, and spiders, and the like, get a sepulchre in amber, more durable than the monume...
FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop: The fly sat upon the axle-tree of the chariot-wheel, and said, W...
FRANCIS BACON We see spiders, flies or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb.
FRANCIS BACON Although finding fruit flies in your wine or beer can be a bit annoying, I hope people will pause to...
MICHAEL DICKINSON In a world that was not easy for Alice to bear or understand, flies were the final and malicious bur...
JOHN STEINBECK As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport.
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DAVID ALMOND Evolutionarily, germ cells are one of the most ancient cell types, needed by every type of animal to...
MARK VAN DOREN Fresh fruits are so untainted. We don't process them, cook them or package them. There are some frui...
ROBERT STANLEY The whole race of scribblers flies from the town and yearns for country life.
UNKNOWN Little cork-bodies poppers are really fun flies to catch them on.
CHUCK GREEN Who like sour fruit to stir their veins' salt tides.
UNKNOWN It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN It's big enough for her," said the chat. "Spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies.
NEIL GAIMAN Though the elephant's tail is short, it can nevertheless keep flies off the elephant
AFRICAN PROVERB As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods;
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods.
They kill us for their sport.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authorit...
BRAND BLANSHARD And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
BIBLE I'd like to be a passion fruit. Not because it's passionate, but because someone I know is mad about...
JOSEPH FIENNES Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.
KHALIL GIBRAN Life is still better than University. In school, your teacher is the fruit picker and you are the op...
C. JOYBELL C. Promises that you make to yourself are often like the Japanese plum tree - they bear no fruit.
FRANCIS MARION But meanwhile time flies; it flies never to be regained.
VIRGIL The flies don't even like this stuff.
JEFF HAYES I like to drink young wines, wines which are robust and have a lot of forward fruit to them.
THOMAS KELLER The Women, like Early Fruit, are soon Ripe and soon Rotten.
EDWARD WARD Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings.
VICTOR J. STENGER There's an absence of consumer rights and a large number of small actors who are mostly criminals. D...
JASON CATLETT Flies are busiest about leane horses.
GEORGE HERBERT Time flies but books are timeless...
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DAVE MORRISON The fruit of silence is prayer, the fruit of prayer is faith, the fruit of faith is love, the fruit ...
MOTHER TERESA I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fru...
JOSEPH ADDISON I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them f...
JOSEPH ADDISON Time flies never to be recalled.
VIRGIL Vineyards ... are bearing their fruit ... so there are some wonderful wine tours.
BARBARA CIEPLAK I don't kill flies but I like to mess with their minds. I hold them above globes. They freak out and...
BRUCE BAUM Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT O God please smite the unbelievers with your holy wrath. Make them as toads in the garden eating dir...
ALBRECHT DRUER Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit. -Kahlil Gibran.
KAHLIL GIBRAN Matthew 7:16 tells us that by their fruits you shall know them. Donald Trump's life has borne fr...
JERRY FALWELL, JR. Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "Spiders' webs only have to be...
NEIL GAIMAN It's your weakness gives them their strength. Mark how they dare not speak to me. A nameless horror ...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Let it crumble! Let the rocks revile me and flowers wilt at my coming. Your whole universe is not en...
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT He sent divers sorts of flies among them, which devoured them; and frogs, which destroyed them.
BIBLE Time ticks, time flies, what have you done in your life?
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV I'm very lucky because I love fruit and to this day, that has saved me because I'd much rath...
CARRIE ANN INABA Heaven is high, Earth Wide. Bitter between them flies my sorrow.
LI PO Where wise actions are the fruit of life, wise discourse is the pollination.
BRYANT H. MCGILL Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
STEPHEN KING Time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator.
ROBERT ORBEN I'm a fly fisherman. I make flies. They're imitations of insects at different stages in thei...
CHRISTOPHER GUEST You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
WILL ROGERS I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appea...
DEMETRI MARTIN Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Where there are humans,
You'll find flies,
And Buddhas.
KOBAYASHI ISSA This is probably the scariest one out of all three of them just because it shows fruit on the side o...
BILL BROWN Anybody who flies frequently is going to go for this, because it's annoying to be patted down.
STEVE LANDES Don't ignore the small things -- the kite flies because of its tail.
HAWAIIAN PROVERB He spake, and there came divers sorts of flies, and lice in all their coasts.
BIBLE More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
PROVERB More flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.
FRENCH PROVERB

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ROBERT FRANK You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.
ROBERT FULGHUM Clean up your own mess.
ROBERT FULGHUM On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential...
ROBERT FULGHUM I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
ROBERT FULGHUM I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
ROBERT FULGHUM To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for...
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