moth quotes

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew 6:19^21.

The moth's kiss, first! Kiss me as if you made believe You were not sure, this eve, How my face, your flower, had pursed Its petals up.

- Robert Browning
  Dramatic Lyrics,'In a Gondola'.

   What brought the kindred spider to that height, Then steered the white moth thither in the night? What but design of darkness to appall? If design govern in a thing so small.

- Robert Lee Frost
  'Design'.

How, like a moth, the simple maid Still plays around the flame!

-John Gay
  The Beggar's Opera, act1, sc.4, air 4.

I felt like a moth hanging on the window pane.

-Jacqueline Lee Kennedy ne  e Bouvier Onassis
  On her first night in the White House, in Newsweek,1  Jan.