Hand Me Down Valentine

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

The Earth laughs in flowers. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

I must have flowers, always and always. - Claude Monet

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

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

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

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

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

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

I claim there ain't another Saint as great as Valentine. - Ogden Nash

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

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

Valentine's Day is like Armistice Day - you declare a truce. - Milton Berle

Without Valentine's Day, February would be... well, January. - Jim Gaffigan

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

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

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

Today is Valentine's Day - or, as men like to call it, Extortion Day. - Jay Leno

Valentine's Day is the day when you remember that Cupid was a lousy shot. - Milton Berle

She was nice to him on Valentine's Day. She gave him a heart-shaped rash. - Milton Berle

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

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine. - Christopher Plummer

I'm like the kid in kindergarten; I really do send valentines to everyone. - Susie Bright

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. - Grace Hansen

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. - D H Lawrence

All my wife wanted for Valentine's Day was a little card - American Express. - Milton Berle

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

Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine! - Thomas Hood

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

To the romantic soul, the rituals of Valentine's Day echo every day of the year. - Richelle E. Goodrich

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

Valentine's Day - a nice holiday because it's the first day of the rest of your wife. - Milton Berle

The only thing that can break a piece of Valentine candy is another piece of Valentine candy. - Milton Berle

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

Valentine's Day money-saving tip: Break up on February 13th, get back together on the 15th. - David Letterman

My wife is a real Puritan. She thinks licking the stamp on the envelope of a Valentine is foreplay. - Milton Berle

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

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. - Nicholas Culpeper

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

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

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

Valentine's Day: Rubbing singles' noses in their lack of a mate and the noses of couples in their lack of time. - Emma McLaughlin

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

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

My son really has the spirit of Valentine's Day. When he was in college, he used to send his mother a heart-shaped box of laundry. - Milton Berle

Mama was my greatest teacher, a teacher of compassion, love and fearlessness. If love is sweet as a flower, then my mother is that sweet flower of love. - Stevie Wonder

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires. - Marcelene Cox

Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration. - D.H. Lawrence

My wife sent me a Valentine card that said, "Take my heart, take my lips, take my soul." That's just like her. She kept the good parts for herself. - Milton Berle

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable. - Joseph Addison

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed. - Paul Harvey

I held a moment in my hand, brilliant as a star, fragile as a flower, a tiny sliver of one hour. I dropped it carelessly, Ah! I didn't know, I held opportunity. - Hazel Lee

Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to see it. Your eyes are covered with layers of thought. - Unknown

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each is to succeed. - Corita Kent

I don't understand why Cupid was chosen to represent Valentine's Day. When I think about romance, the last thing on my mind is a short, chubby toddler coming at me with a weapon. - Unknown

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers. - Leigh Hunt