The earth laughs in flowers.
- E. E. Cummings
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
- Claude Monet
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
- William Shakespeare
Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
- Henry Beecher
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
- Unknown
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
- Basho
Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
- William Shakespeare
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
- Henri Matisse
Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.
- Antonio Porchia
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
- Victor Hugo
Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.
- John Ruskin
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
- Robert Herrick
To create a little flower is the labour of ages.
- William Blake
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
- Walt Whitman
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
- Maurice Maeterlinck
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health.
- Proverb
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
- The Koran
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
- Lope de Vega
Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- Georgia O'Keeffe
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
- Beverly Nichols
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun
Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.
- Thomas Tusser
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.
- Jean Giraudoux
As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world.
- Buddha
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
- George Bernard Shaw
There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.
- John Muir
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the flower leaves on the heel of the one that crushed it.
- Unknown
Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- Theodore Roethke
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.
- Samuel Johnson
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun
How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers.
- Mother Teresa
Flowers are happy things.
- P G Wodehouse
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
- Jeremy Bentham
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us.
- John Updike
Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful, they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
- Luther Burbank
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.
- Jean Paul Richter
