
“I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. There's nobody as beautiful or as powerful as me!”
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
“I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. There's nobody as beautiful or as powerful as me!”
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
“208. The honey is sweet, but the bee stings.”
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“959. Bees that have Honey in their Mouths, have Stings in their Tails.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. The hands can't hit what the eyes can't see.”
Variant: Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
Source: Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times
"The Symbols"
The Janitor's Boy And Other Poems (1924)
Context: p>The very serpents bite their tails; the bees forget to sting,
For a language so celestial setteth up a wondering.And the touch of absent mindedness is more than any line,
Since direction counts for nothing when the gods set up a sign.</p