Flornithology

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

A married man is a caged bird. - Spanish Proverb

Birds of a feather flock together. - English Proverb

Where flowers bloom, so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson

He wears the rose of youth upon him. - William Shakespeare

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

I must have flowers, always and always. - Claude Monet

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James R Lowell

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. - English Proverb

Life is a flower of which love is the honey. - Victor Hugo

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. - Isaiah 35:1

He was so good he would pour rose water on a toad. - Douglas Jerrold

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. - Albert Camus

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. - Salvador Dali

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. - Robert G Ingersoll

I'll tell you how the sun rose - a ribbon at a time. - Emily Dickinson

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

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

There are flowers everywhere, for those who bother to look. - Henri Matisse

The early bird catches the worm, eats more, and dies sooner. - Czech Proverb

Since the thing perhaps is to eat flowers and not to be afraid. - e e cummings

If one cannot catch the bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. - Nikita Krushchev

In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm. - Alan Perlis

The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese. - Steven Wright

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. - Molly McGee

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H L Mencken

may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living - e e cummings

And 'tis my faith, that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes. - William Wordsworth

With birds flying around, man's desire for having wings rises to infinite. - Mehmet M Ildan

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost. - Arthur Miller

The bird, the bee, the running child are all the same to the sliding glass door. - Demetri Martin

I know of only one bird (the parrot) that talks; and it can't fly very high. - Wilbur Wright

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. - William Cowper

I spent a lot of my money on booze, birds and fast cars... the rest I squandered. - George Best

Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it. - David Jeremiah

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John A Holmes

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind. Listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody. - Eubie Blake

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance. - e e cummings

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. - Nicholas Culpeper

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared. - Unknown

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

The moment a little boy is concerned with which is a jay and which is a sparrow, he can no longer see the birds or hear them sing. - Eric Berne

If I were a flower,
humming bird would be my favourite bee
And If I were blind,
the light of darkness I'd love to see - Munia Khan

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape as it was before. - Robert Lynd

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte