Carnations vs. Roses

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

The Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

He wears the rose of youth upon him. - William Shakespeare

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

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

Romance is the icing, the love is the cake. - Unknown

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

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid

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

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

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

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M Barrie

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

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

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. - Earl Nightingale

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

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

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

Lackadaisical: 1. Mood after someone steals your flowers; 2. Something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

Nobody sees a flower, really - it is so small - we haven't time, and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time. - Georgia O'Keefe

Vacation Time: That period when the flowers in the home garden are at their best and only the neighbours are around to enjoy them - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your wife is bound to interfere. - Groucho Marx

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte