Carnations vs. Roses

Candlestine romance - Archie Bunker

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

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

A revolution is not a bed of roses. - Fidel Castro

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - Phillips Brooks

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

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

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

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. - Oscar Wilde

I'll tell you how the sun rose - a ribbon at a time. - Emily Dickinson

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance. - Oscar Wilde

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

God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. - James M Barrie

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming. - Pablo Neruda

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

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

We rose to bring about Eutopia,
But all we got was Dev's myopia. - Oliver St. John Gogarty

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

Always it's Spring,and everyone's in love and flowers pick themselves. - e e cummings

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

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

Roses are red, Pizza sauce is too, I ordered a large, and None of it is for you. - Unknown

It will never rain roses. When we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses. - George Eliot

After you cut off a person's nose there is no point in giving him a rose to smell. - Ravi Zacharias

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. - John A Holmes

In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer

Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. - Earl Nightingale

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

Even bees, the little almsmen of spring bowers, know there is richest juice in poison-flowers. - John Keats

Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill. - Groucho Marx

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

You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steamroller will not plant flowers. - Walter Lippmann

I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. - Michel de Montaigne

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

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H L Mencken

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

Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. - Unknown

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