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Butterflies Quotes
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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. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods. (Quote by - Edith Wharton)
Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower." (Quote by - Hans Christian Anderson)
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Far out at sea,--the sun was high, While veer'd the wind and flapped the sail, We saw a snow-white butterfly Dancing before the fitful gale, Far out at sea. (Quote by - Richard Hengist Horne)
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. (Quote by - Richard Buckminster Fuller)
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. (Quote by - Charles Dickens)
I'd be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. (Quote by - Richard Bach)
And many an ante-natal tomb When butterflies dream of the life to come. (Quote by - Percy Bysshe Shelley)
The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - 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. (Quote by - Nathaniel Hawthorne)
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. (Quote by - Andre Gide)