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 flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - Phillips Brooks

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

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

Valentine's Day is the poet's holiday. - Ted Kooser

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

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf. - Lewis Mumford

Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light. - Theodore Roethke

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

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

To die in the flower of age is a life offered in sacrifice. - Madagascar Saying

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

I love Valentine's Day! I love it, I love it, I love it. I like having doors opened for me. - Ginnifer Goodwin

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

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

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

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

If the English language made any sense, 'lackadaisical' would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. - Doug Larson

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

I like to do things for my wife on Valentine's Day. I open the door for her when she puts laundry in the washing machine. - Milton Berle

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

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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

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

Valentine's Day is when stores and restaurants get rich, men get lucky, and women fill their pretty faces with chocolate and put up with their man for six seconds at the end of the night. - Unknown

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. - Orison Swett Marden

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life. - John Lubbock

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you...
and kisses are a better fate
than wisdom
lady i swear by all flowers. - e e cummings