Carnations vs. Roses

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

The Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

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

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

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nuewal

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

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

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

He was so good he would pour rose water on a toad. - Douglas Jerrold

Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers. - Robert G Ingersoll

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

There are always flowers for those who want to see them. - Henri Matisse

Botany: The art of insulting flowers in Greek and Latin. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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

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

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. - Oscar Wilde

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

When a man brings his wife flowers for no reason, there's a reason. - Molly McGee

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

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it. - David Jeremiah

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

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

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

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln

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

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

Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Jose L Borges

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

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

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

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

You love flowers, but you cut them. You love animals, but you eat them. You tell me you love me, so now I'm scared. - Unknown

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

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