Logo
Quote by Gerald Brenan
We are closer to the ants than to butterflies. Very few people can

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

Other quotes by Gerald Brenan

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The things to avoid is being a bore to oneself. – Gerald Brenan

Category:
Boredom
Author
Gerald Brenan
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Butterflies
category

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with humans it is the other way around: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Butterflies

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

Category:
Butterflies

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

Category:
Butterflies

Just like the butterfly, I too will awaken in my own time. – Deborah Chaskin

Category:
Butterflies

Random Quotes

Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didnt work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four terms and a World War, it probably wont work for you either. – Jon Meacham

Category:
War

Since I was a kid, Ive had an absolute obsession with particular kinds of American music. Mississippi Delta blues of the Thirties, Chicago blues of the Fifties, West Coast music of the mid-Sixties – but Id never really touched on dark Americana. – Robert Plant

Category:
Music

Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts. – Paramahansa Yogananda

Category:
sad

If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing. – English Proverb

Category:
Action(s)