Quotes about Moth

how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundations are in the dust, who can be crushed like a moth!

But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

You discipline and correct a man for his iniquity, consuming like a moth what he holds dear; surely each man is but a vapor. Selah

Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.

For the moth will devour them like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool. But My righteousness will last forever, My salvation through all generations.”

The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut set up by a watchman.

By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

So I am like a moth to Ephraim, and like decay to the house of Judah.

The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as it says in an old book, laying up treasures which moth and rust will corrupt and thieves break through and steal. It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.

But I was thinking; feeling; living; those two lives that the two halves symbolized with the intensity, the muffled intensity, which a butterfly or moth feels when with its sticky tremulous legs and antennae it pushes out of the chrysalis and emerges and sits quivering beside the broken case for a moment; its wings still creased; its eyes dazzled, incapable of flight.