Hand Me Down Valentine

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

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

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

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

Valentine hearts beat more passionately than everyday hearts. - Unknown

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

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

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

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

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

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

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

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 thing about Valentine's day is that people discover who are single and who to feel jealous of. - Faye Morgan

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

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

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

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

Happiness is to see the world in a grain of sand, and Heaven in a wild flower, to hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in a single hour. - William Blake

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

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

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

Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper. - John Niven

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

Hollywood wanted to change my birthdate. I was born after Valentine's Day, so they wanted to change it to February 14. A Latin lover should be born on Valentine's Day. I said no. - Cesar Romero

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

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

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