Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach
The trouble with most comedians who try to do satire is that they are essentially brash, noisy and indelicate people who have to use a sledge hammer... →
Imogene Coca
Never touch a butterfly's wing with your finger.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.
R. Buckminster Fuller
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would... →
Andre Gide
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
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.
Anthony Kiedis
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Jeffrey Kluger