Devil's Food Rose Cake

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. - Fidel Castro

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. - Robert Herrick

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

Wine is the flower in the buttonhole of life. - Werumeus Buning

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

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

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

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

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

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

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. - Esai Morales

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

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

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

A person of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

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

If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change. - Buddha

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

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

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

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

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

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

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

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

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

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

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

Negative thoughts are like weeds in your garden and positive thoughts are the seeds of your garden, kill the weeds and feed the seeds. - Sukhi Burgen

A rose can say "I love you",
Orchids can enthrall,
But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist,
Yes, that says it all. - Unknown

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

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