Devil's Food Rose Cake

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

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

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

Grace: nutrient in the marriage garden - Phil Callaway

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

Everything's coming up roses - for me. - Ethel Merman

You can't squeeze blood out of a tulip. - Archie Bunker

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

An old man in love is like a flower in winter. - Portuguese Proverb

Implement: Mischievous child's garden tool - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

It is by believing in roses that one brings them to bloom. - French Proverb

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

The fuchsia is the world's most carefully spelled flower. - Jimmy Barnes

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

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. - Ana Claudia Antunes

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

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. - Oscar Levant

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. - Richard B. Sheridan

If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden. - Frances H Burnett

We rose to bring about Eutopia,
But all we got was Dev's myopia. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

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

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

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

The grass withers, the flower fades
But the word of our God stands forever. - Isaiah 40:8

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean. - Erma Bombeck

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground. - G K Chesterton

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

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

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

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

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

Fence: 1. The difference between one yard and two yards; 2. Runs around the garden without moving. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Model Wife: One who, when she spades the garden, picks up the fish worms and saves them for her husband - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Unemployment: 1. Capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden; 2. An intelligent alternative to overwork. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Tooth decay was a perennial problem that meant a mouthful of silver for patients, and for dentists a pocketful of gold. - Claudia Wallis

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

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

Never design your character like a garden where anyone can walk. Design your character like the sky where everyone's desire is to reach. - Unknown

The media have provided the Devil with perhaps the greatest opportunity accorded him since Adam and Eve were turned out of the Garden of Eden. - Malcolm Muggeridge

We went down into the silent garden. Dawn is the time when nothing breathes, the hour of silence. Everything is transfixed, only the light moves. - Leonora Carrington