Instead Of Flowers

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

The Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. - Ruth Brown

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

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers. - Eden Robinson

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

Autumn is mellower, and what we lost in flowers, we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

Always it's Spring,and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. - e e cummings

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. - Grace Hansen

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

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

I want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner

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

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. - John Keats

If Springtime crawls out of the wild mouths of flowers, then surely, Winter crawls out of mine. - Cecilia Llompart

Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Jose L Borges

Why buy flowers for Valentine's Day? Just go to a cemetery and collect a dozen off a few graves. - Jarod Kintz

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

I would have brung you flowers too, but I read in a magazine that they suck up all the carbon monoxygen. - Archie Bunker

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. - Walter Lippmann

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne

Let us decide on the route that we wish to take to pass our life, and attempt to sow that route with flowers. - Du Chatelet

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

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

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. - George Eliot