"I saw a poet chase a butterfly in a meadow.  He put his net on a bench where a boy sat reading a book.  It's a misfortune that it is usually the other way round." - Karl Kraus "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 "They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods." - ...

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"Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind. " - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow "When ideas float in our mind without any reflection or regard of the understanding, it is that which the French call revery, our language has scarce a name for it." - John Locke "Sometimes, in a summer morning, having taken my accustomed bath, I sat in my sunny doorway from sunrise till noon, rapt in reverie." - Henry David Thoreau ...

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"Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory." - Franklin Pierce Adams "Things ain't what they used to be and probably never was." - Will Rogers "It's never safe to be nostalgic about something until you're absolutely certain there's no chance of its coming back." - Bill Vaughn ...

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