Carnations vs. Roses

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

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

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

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

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

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

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

I'll tell you how the sun rose - a ribbon at a time. - Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

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

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

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

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. - Jeremy Bentham

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

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

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

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. - Ben Hogan

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

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

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

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

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

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