Carnations vs. Roses

Candlestine romance - Archie Bunker

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

The Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

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

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

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

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

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

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

To die in the flower of age is a life offered in sacrifice. - Madagascar Saying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Roses are red, Pizza sauce is too, I ordered a large, and None of it is for you. - Unknown

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

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more trees. - George Eliot

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

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill. - Groucho Marx

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

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

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

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. - Bhagavad Gita

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is a flower. God put it here. - Willie Nelson

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

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. - H L Mencken

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H L Mencken

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

Twenty years of romance make a woman look like a ruin, but twenty years of marriage make her something like a public building. - Oscar Wilde

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

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