“ What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. ”
- Richard Bach- Copy
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“ The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
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“ They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ With the rose the butterfly's deep in love, A thousand times hovering round; But round himself, all tender like gold, The sun's sweet ray is hovering found. ”
- Heinrich Heine- Copy
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“ I know not if I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or if I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ”
- Rene Descartes- Copy
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“ Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone loves. ”
- Drew Barrymore- Copy
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“ We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ”
- Gerald Brenan- Copy
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“ Love is like a butterfly, hold it too tight, it'll crush, hold it too loose, it'll fly away. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Musical ideas sprang to my mind like a flight of butterflies, and all I had to do was to stretch out my hand to catch them. ”
- Charles Gounod- Copy
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“ I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies. ”
- Brendan Gill- Copy
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“ There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ”
- Richard Buckminster Fuller- Copy
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“ The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. ”
- George Carlin- Copy
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“ I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ May the wings of the butterfly kiss the sun And find your shoulder to light on, To bring you luck, happiness and riches Today, tomorrow and beyond. ”
- Irish Blessing- Copy
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“ But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire. ”
- Robert Frost- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. ”
- Thomas Haynes Bayly- Copy
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“ And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. ”
- Percy Bysshe Shelley- Copy
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“ Much converse do I find in thee, Historian of my infancy! Float near me; do not yet depart! Dead times revive in thee: Thou bring'st, gay creature as thou art! A solemn image to my heart. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Everything that Mr Smallweed's grandfather ever put away in his mind was a grub at first, and is a grub at last. In all his life he has never bred a single butterfly. ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
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“ A coat that is not used, the moths eat; and a Christian who is hung up so that he shall not be tempted — the moths eat him; and they have poor food at that. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Happiness is like a butterfly. The more you chase it, the more it will elude you. But if you turn your attention to other things, it comes and softly sits on your shoulder. ”
- Richard L. Lessor- Copy
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