Carnations vs. Roses

Candlestine romance - Archie Bunker

At my age flowers scare me. - George Burns

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

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

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

He wears the rose of youth upon him. - William Shakespeare

A root is a flower that disdains fame. - Kahlil Gibran

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

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - Phillips Brooks

Romance is the icing, the love is the cake. - Unknown

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise. - James R Lowell

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

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

The desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. - Isaiah 35:1

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

A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia

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

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. - Esai Morales

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

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

True love is like little roses, sweet, fragrant in small doses. - Ana Claudia Antunes

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. - Oscar Levant

No one flower can every symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet. - William Safire

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

I love romance. I'm a sucker for it. I love it so much. It's pathetic. - Drew Barrymore

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers. - Grace Hansen

Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. - Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

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

Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. - Jeremy Bentham

What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. - Ben Hogan

The Herbs ought to be distilled when they are in their greatest vigor, and so ought the Flowers also. - Nicholas Culpeper

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

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

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

The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches. - Antonin Scalia

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. - Helen Keller

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

It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks. - George Eliot

A rose can say "I love you",
Orchids can enthrall,
But a weed bouquet in a chubby fist,
Yes, that says it all. - 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