Quotes On Butterflies

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity.  

Attributed to George Carlin

Beautiful and graceful, varied and enchanting, small but approachable, butterflies lead you to the sunny side of life.  And everyone deserves a little sunshine.  

Jeffrey Glassberg

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.  

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"Just living is not enough," said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."  

Hans Christian Andersen

Know thyself!  A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly.  Whoever observes himself arrests his own development.  A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.  

Andre Gide

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.  

Author Unknown

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly.  But with humans it is the other way around:  a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. 

Anton Chekhov

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still.  

Joseph Conrad

Women, don't get a tattoo.  That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to seventy, it stretches into a condor.  

Billy Elmer

As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.  

Marianne Moore

Nerves and butterflies are fine - they're a physical sign that you're mentally ready and eager.  You have to get the butterflies to fly in formation, that's the trick.  

Steve Bull

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.  

Chuang Tzu

The least thing upset him on the links.  He missed short putts because of the uproar of butterflies in the adjoining meadows.  

P.G. Wodehouse

We are closer to the ants than to butterflies.  Very few people can endure much leisure.  

Gerald Brenan

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly.  There's no better way to fly.  

Pat Monahan

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.  

Edith Wharton

I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow.  He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book.  It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round.  

Karl Kraus