Carnations vs. Roses

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

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

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

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

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

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

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Tennis: a sport in which even an unseeded player can flower. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

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

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. - Drew Barrymore

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

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

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

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

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

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

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

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

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

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 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