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 Harris
Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.Mariah Carey
Butterflies 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 Barrymore
Flies 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 ildan
Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.Pablo Neruda
Happiness 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 Hawthorne
Have 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 Coelho
Source: 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 Hemingway
I 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 Tsu
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.Charles Dickens
I 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 Doyle
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.Muhammad Ali
I'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 Lorenz
In 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. Tolkien
Source: 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 Gilbert
Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.Vladimir Nabokov
Love 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 Dickens
Source: The Pickwick Papers
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.Rabindranath Tagore
The butterfly often forgets it once was a caterpillar.
The butterfly that flies among the thorns will tear its wings.
The butterfly that settles on a branch is afraid that he will break it.
The lepidopterist who records in her notebook that a butterfly is blue may not stop to consider that this is true only because the giant ball of nuclear fuel ninety-three million miles away happens to maintain a surface temperature just right for shedding certain wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation on the Earth; that the eyes of humans have evolved to be sensitive to those wavelengths; that the eye can discriminate slightly different wavelengths as colours; that one of those colours has, by cultural consensus, been defined as 'blue', and so on. Nevertheless, science benefits from the lepidopterist's note that the butterfly is blue.Bill Bryson
Source: Seeing further: the story of science & the Royal Society
The sun was shining brilliantly, and it was a long while before he could bear it. When he could, he saw all round him a sea of dark green, ruffled here and there by the breeze; and there were everywhere hundreds of butterflies.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo on top of a tree.
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.R. Buckminster Fuller
They were a kind of "purple emperor", a butterfly that loves the tops of oak-woods, but these were not purple at all, they were a dark dark velvety black without any markings to be seen.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 8 - Flies and Spiders
Bilbo looking at butterflies
Two caterpillars are conversing and a beautiful butterfly floats by. One caterpillar turns and says to the other: 'You'll never see me flying like one of those butterflies.'
We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.Gerald Brenan
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.Richard Bach
What the caterpillar calls the end, the butterfly calls the beginning.
When a butterfly flutters its wings in one part of the world, it can eventually cause a hurricane in another.Edward Norton Lorenz
The butterfly effect
When the moth flies around the flame, it burns itself to death.
You are like the butterfly that flies from flower to flower.
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