Definition of Butterfly

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Definition of Butterfly
	Butterfly A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Related Definitions: Diurnal, For, General, Lepidoptera, Name, Numerous, Of, Species, The

Butterfly Quotations

Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
Muhammad Ali

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.
Ernest Hemingway

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.
Richard Bach

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

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

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

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 dreamed I was a butterfly, flitting around in the sky; then I awoke. Now I wonder: Am I a man who dreamt of being a butterfly, or am I a butterfly dreaming that I am a man?
Zhuangzi

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

Butterfly Translations

butterfly in Danish is sommerfugl
butterfly in Dutch is vlinder, kapel
butterfly in Finnish is perhonen
butterfly in French is papillon
butterfly in German is Schmetterling
butterfly in Italian is farfalla
butterfly in Norwegian is sommerfugl
butterfly in Portuguese is borboleta
butterfly in Spanish is mariposa

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