Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger. ~ Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

Butterflies are the cutest insects. They flutter their wings, rest upon things and are so delicate and pretty.

This magnificent butterfly finds a little heap of dirt and sits still on it; but man will never on his heap of mud keep still. ~ Joseph Conrad

I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. ~ Zhuangzi

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

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

Just as the bird sings or the butterfly soars, because it is his natural characteristic, so the artist works. ~ Alma Gluck

Is it sin, which makes the worm a chrysalis, and the chrysalis a butterfly, and the butterfly dust? ~ Max Muller

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. ~ R. Buckminster Fuller

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

I would like to think that the singer is the butterfly, and the drummer was just the little grub in the ground, working to become a caterpillar. ~ Robert Wyatt

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies? ~ Roy Rogers

Across my dreams with nets of wonder I chase the bright elusive butterfly of love

Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and color. And everybody is smiling and happy and butterflies flitting around and it was that kind of image that, it was like a dream world, really. ~ Ge..

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure. ~ Gerald Brenan

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game. ~ John Starks

Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold. ~ William Moulton Marston

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

Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually racked with pain. ~ Philip Pullman

Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man. ~ Vladimir Nabokov