Some insects are loved, others are hated. Butterflies are our favorites. Here are some quotes and proverbs about butterflies and moths.
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A cockroach cannot give birth to a butterfly.
A social butterfly.
A person interested principally in frivolous pleasure.After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.
Franco HarrisButterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
Mariah CareyButterflies come to pretty flowers.
Butterflies forget that they were once caterpillars.
Butterflies store no money.
Butterfly effect.
The phenomenon whereby a small change at one place in a complex system can have large effects elsewhere, e.g., a butterfly flapping its wings in Amsterdam might change the weather in Bangkok. The term was first used by meteorologist Edward Lorenz.Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves.
Drew BarrymoreFlies like a butterfly, stings like a bee.
(unknown author)This refers to Mohammad Ali (boxer).
For a new year to bring you something new, make a move, like a butterfly tearing its cocoon! Make a move!
Mehmet Murat ildanGreen was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.
Pablo NerudaHappiness is a butterfly.
Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
Nathaniel HawthorneHave butterflies in one's stomach.
To have a nervous feeling in one's stomach. Being in love.He remembered something his grandfather had once told him: that butterflies were a good omen. Like crickets, and like grasshoppers; like lizards and four-leaf clovers.
Paulo CoelhoSource: The Alchemist
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest HemingwayI dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Chuang TsuI only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
Charles DickensI tell you, Mr. Holmes, this man collects women, and takes a pride in his collection, as some men collect moths or butterflies.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad AliI'll NEVER be a butterfly; My mother was a moth.
If the flap of a butterfly’s wings can be instrumental in generating a tornado, it can equally well be instrumental in preventing a tornado.
Edward Norton LorenzIn the end he poked his head above the roof of leaves, and then he found spiders all right. But they were only small ones of ordinary size, and they were after the butterflies.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
What Bilbo sees after climbing a tree
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Rob GilbertLiterature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.
Vladimir NabokovLove is like a butterfly, hold it to tight it will crush, hold it to loose, it will fly.
Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught, some fly away.
Take not a musket and kill a butterfly.
Don't use more force than is necessary.The ant crept forth to her daily toil, the butterfly fluttered and basked in the warm rays of the sun; myriads of insects spread their transparent wings, and revelled in their brief but happy existence. Man walked forth, elated with the scene; and all was brightness and splendour.
Charles DickensSource: The Pickwick Papers
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