- Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go ~ Mariah Carey
- 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
- I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free ~Charles Dickens
- I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special~ Jennifer Aniston
- If there is one creature that represents my essence, it’s butterflies ~ Patricia Velasquez
- I’d be a butterfly, born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet ~Thomas Haynes Bayly
- “Just living is not enough,” said the butterfly, “one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower.” ~Hans Christian Anderson
- 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
- 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 - Proverbs are like butterflies, some are caught and some fly away ~ German Proverb
- The writer’s pen is to ideas what the net is to butterflies ~ Paul Carvel
- The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough ~Rabindranath Tagore
- The green grass and the happy skies, court the fluttering butterflies ~Astrid Alauda
- The air is like a butterfly/ With frail blue wings/ The happy earth looks at the sky/ And sings ~ Joyce Kilmer
- We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think its forever ~Dr. Carl Sagan




