ON FLOWERS Compiled by Mohanan.T
True, in joy or in sadness, flowers are our constant friends. And more so if it is in love & romance.
Flowers are love's truest language. -Park Benjamin
In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends. -Kozuko Okakura
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.
-Alphonse Karr
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God; But only he who sees, takes off his shoes - The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Different flowers look good to different people
Pick the flower when it is ready to be picked.
The flower that you spent time to care for does not grow while the willow that your accidentally planted flourishes and gives shade.
-Chinese Proverb
Little flower, but if I could understand, what you are, root and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
-Tennyson
He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to that of the happy mortal who enters this world with a passion for flowers in his soul.
-Celia Thaxter
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades. -Evelyn Loeb
If of thy mortal goods thou art bereft, And of thy meager store Two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul. -Sheikh Muslih-uddin Saadi Shirazi
As well as any bloom upon a flower I like the dust on the nettles, never lost Except to prove the sweetness of a shower. -Edward Thomas
In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. The thoughts grow as freely as the flowers, and the dreams are as beautiful.
-Abram L. Urban
In friendship's fragrant garden, There are flowers of every hue. Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you. -Friendship's Garden
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life. -Jean Giraudoux
None can have a healthy love for flowers unless he loves the wild ones. -Forbes Watson
The old tree is shook White blossoms slowly float down Dancers in the wind -Alexandra Kim
Every rose has its thorn: You never find a woman without pins and needles. -Douglas Jerrold
The Earth Laughs in Flowers -Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is at the edge of a petal that love waits. -William Carlos Williams
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. -Emma Goldman
If you pass by the color purple in a field and don't notice it, God gets real pissed off.
-Alice Walker
Lone and erect, beneath light's primal flood, A lily! and pure as any one of you. -Mallarme
Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and siting in the shade. -Rudyard Kipling
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
-Henry Ward Beckford
From a thorn comes a rose, and from a rose comes a thorn. -Greek Proverb
He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. -Persian Proverb
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. -Chinese proverb
But ne'er the rose without the thorn. -Robert Herrick
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
-Abraham Lincoln
This old world that we're livin' in Is might hard to beat. You get a thorn with every Rose But - ain't the roses sweet? -Frank Stanton
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses Ovid
When bright flowers bloom Parchment crumbles, my words fade The pen has dropped ... -Morpheus
Observe this dew-drenched rose of Tyrian gardens A rose today. But you will ask in vain Tomorrow what it is; and yesterday It was the dust, the sunshine, and the rains. -Christina Rosetti
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -H.L. Mencken
I do not think I have ever seen anything more beautiful than the bluebell I have been looking at.
I know the beauty of our Lord by it.
-Gerald Manley Hopkins
If there were nothing else to trouble us, the fate of the flowers would make us sad.
-John Lancaster Spalding
Isn't it odd that flowers are the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on?
-Logan Pearsall Smith
When I walk with you, I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. -William Makepeace Thackeray
Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole.
-Mark Twain
Where flowers bloom so does hope. -Lady Bird Johnson
Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. -Oscar Wilde
Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. -PG Wodehouse
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers And not pick one. -Edna St. Vincent Millay
God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. -James Matthew Barrie
Marke it welle, There are flowers, and there are weeds- But mostly weeds. -Scott Orville Bergren
A flower's fragrance declares to all the world that it is fertile, available, and desirable, its sex organs oozing with nectar. Its smell reminds us in vestigial ways of fertility, vigor, life-force, all the optimism, expectancy, and passionate bloom of youth.
We inhale its ardent aroma and, no matter what our ages, we feel young and nubile in a world aflame with desire.
-Diane Ackerman
Each flower is a soul opening out to nature. -Gerald De Nerval
It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
-George Eliot
In the cherry blossom's shade there's no such thing as a stranger. -Issa
At dawn I asked the lotus, 'What is the meaning of life?' Slowly she opened her hand with nothing in it. -Debra Wollard Bender
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. -Heinrich Heine
Who would have thought it possible that a tiny little flower could preoccupy a person so completely that there simply wasn't room for any other thought....
-Sophie Scholl
The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends. -Persian Proverb
They are not long, the days of wine and roses: Out of a misty dream Our path emerges for a while, then closes Within a dream. -Ernest Dowson
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
-Anais Nin
What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. -Shakespeare
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Lope de Vega
If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars?
-G.K. Chesterton
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. -Claude Monet
Let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive. -John Keats
Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. -Chinese proverb
I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice.
-Roland A Beowne
A rose is a rose is a rose. -Gertrude Stein
I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess to be a little wilderness. -Andrew Marvell
Break open A cherry tree And there are no flowers, But the spring breeze Brings forth myriad blossoms. -Ikkyu Sojun
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
-Vita Sackville-West
Simply trust: Do not the petals flutter down, Just like this? -Issa
Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose garden. -T.S. Eliot
All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. -Indian Proverb
Every flower about a house certifies to the refinement of somebody. Every vine climbing and blossoming tells of love and joy" -Robert G. Ingersoll
Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire. -George Meredith
Every child is born a naturalist. His eyes are, by nature, open to the glories of the stars, the beauty of the flowers, and the mystery of life.
-R. Search
The Amen! of Nature is always a flower. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
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