Quotes on Butterflies

Cute Quotes on Butter Butterflies

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. – Author Unknown

 The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

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

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

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

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
– Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

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

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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

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

Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower. – Hans Christian Andersen

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. – Charles Dickens

And what’s a butterfly? At best,
He’s but a caterpillar, at rest.
– John Grey

Flowers and butterflies drift in color, illuminating spring. – Author Unknown

We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever. – Carl Sagan

This great purple butterfly,
In the prison of my hands,
Has a learning in his eye
Not a poor fool understands.
– William Butler Yeats

[N]ot quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures. – Elizabeth Goudge

The butterfly, a cabbage-white,
(His honest idiocy of flight)
Will never now, it is too late,
Master the art of flying straight.
– Robert Graves

The green grass and the happy skies
court the fluttering butterflies.
– Terri Guillemets

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

Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
– Dante Alighieri

Bees sip honey from flowers and hum their thanks when they leave.
The gaudy butterfly is sure that the flowers owe thanks to him.
– Rabindranath Tagore

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

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There’s no better way to fly. – Pat Monahan

The fluttering of a butterfly’s wings can effect climate changes on the other side of the planet. – Paul Erlich

And the case of butterflies so rich it looks
As if all summer settled there and died.
– Philip Larkin

If nothing ever changed, there’d be no butterflies. – Author Unknown

The caterpillar does all the work but the butterfly gets all the publicity. – Attributed to George Carlin

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. – Richard Bach

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

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

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

The butterfly is a flying flower,
The flower a tethered butterfly.
– Ponce Denis Écouchard Lebrun

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

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly. – Richard Buckminster Fuller

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

Just living is not enough, said the butterfly, one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower. – Hans Christian Andersen

Love is like a butterfly: It goes where it pleases and it pleases wherever it goes. – Author Unknown