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

You generally hear that what a man doesn't know doesn't hurt him, but in business what a man doesn't know does hurt.

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.

Middle age snuffs out more talent than even wars or sudden death does.

As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.

If you wish to be brothers, let the arms fall from your hands. One cannot love while holding offensive arms.

Everyone is a bore to someone. That is unimportant. The thing to avoid is being a bore to oneself.

Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

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

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

A healthy old fellow, who is not a fool, is the happiest creature living.

The cliche is dead poetry.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.

Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.

In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate the husband the landscape.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values; that is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

Here is a city built in a wilderness. Philip II chose the site for no other reason than that it was the geographic centre of Spain.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

When many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.

It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?

Ants are good citizens, they place group interests first.

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

We're all the same. We all want the same thing in life. Everybody going around like ants and we all want the same thing. And it's not one queen. It's not one queen with the wings.

I don't believe in evil, I believe only in horror. In nature there is no evil, only an abundance of horror: the plagues and the blights and the ants and the maggots.

I ate ants. They weren't that bad.

The day after I got an agent, I got called in for a role in a TV movie called 'Legion Of Fire: Killer Ants.'

Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.

Not for a moment, beautiful aged Walt Whitman, have I failed to see your beard full of butterflies.

I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning. That is special.

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.

I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.

Art is the fatal net which catches these strange moments on the wing like mysterious butterflies, fleeing the innocence and distraction of common men.

I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud of blue butterflies.

The least thing upset him on the links. He missed short putts because of the uproar of the butterflies in the adjoining meadows.

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.

What's a butterfly garden without butterflies?

I get terrible butterflies. Before I go onstage, I'll have to freak out for five minutes. I scream. It seems to help!

After 12 years, the old butterflies came back. Well, I guess at my age you call them moths.

It's so bizarre, I'm not scared of snakes or spiders. But I'm scared of butterflies. There is something eerie about them. Something weird!

First round of the tournament being a Major, I think the butterflies were a little different than that.

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

If there is one creature that represents my essence, it's butterflies.

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.