best quotations about
Flowers |
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Quotations
 | No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 7 likes |
 | The smell is the intelligence of flowers. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 6 likes |
 | A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | The tulip is a flower without a soul; but it seems that the rose and the lily have one. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 4 likes |
 | The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist 4 likes |
 | The earth laughs in flowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet 3 likes |
 | Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | Because the world is so full of death and horror, I try again and again to console my heart and pick the flowers that grow in the midst of hell. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 3 likes |
 | If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
 | What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Romeo and Juliet 2 likes |
 | It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | I paint flowers so they will not die. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 2 likes |
 | Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. — Mao Zedong, 1893-1976, Chinese leader 2 likes |
| The flower is a jumble of thighs, the sun's harem. — Malcolm de Chazal, 1902-1981, Mauritian thinker & aphorist 2 likes |
 | Where have all the flowers gone? — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 2 likes |
 | The Amen of nature is always a flower. |
 | The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. |
 | God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. |
 | The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (The Cave, 2000) |
 | No one plants rosebushes for the thorns. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
Personal Stories
 | The sunflower is mine, in a way. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 2 likes |
Quotes in Verse
 | Now is the time for wine, flowers, and feasting with friends. Enjoy this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam, 1048-1131, Persia poet & polymath 1 likes |
 | The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. |
Special Quotes
 | Say it with flowers. — Slogan for the Society of American Florists (first use: 15 December 1917) 2 likes |
