Quotes

Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
-William Shakespeare

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
-John Ruskin

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
-Maurice Maeterlinck

With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
-Lope de Vega

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
-Ikkyu Sojun

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
-George Bernard Shaw

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
-Samuel Johnson

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
-Jeremy Bentham

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
-Henry Beecher

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
-Henri Matisse

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
-Robert Herrick

Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
-Proverb

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
-Georgia O'Keeffe

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
-Thomas Tusser

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
-John Muir

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
-Ikkyu Sojun

Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
-John Updike

The earth laughs in flowers.
-E. E. Cummings

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
-Anonymous Author

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
-Antonio Porchia

To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
-William Blake

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
-The Koran

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
-Emma Goldman

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
-Jean Giraudoux

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.
-Anonymous Author

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
-Mother Teresa

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful, they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
-Luther Burbank

I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
-Claude Monet

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
-Basho

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
-Victor Hugo

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
-Walt Whitman

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
-Beverly Nichols

As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
-Buddha

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
-Theodore Roethke

Flowers are happy things.
-P G Wodehouse

There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
-Jean Paul Richter