…I don’t want to buckle down to any actual work, even in mid-afternoon.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an

insect, and the other is a horse still.

—Samuel Johnson

Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if

it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy.

—Mark Twain

God in his wisdom made the fly

And then forgot to tell us why

—Ogden Nash

Aquila non capit muscas [The eagle does not catch flies]

—Some Roman