Carnations vs. Roses

Stop and smell the roses. - Phoebe Moll

I like perfume and flowers. - Donatella Versace

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers. - Ruth Brown

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

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

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

Happiness is the natural flower of duty. - Phillips Brooks

Everything's coming up roses - for me. - Ethel Merman

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

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

Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature. - Gerard De Nuewal

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

He was so good he would pour rose water on a toad. - Douglas Jerrold

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

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

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

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

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Autumn is mellower, and what we lost in flowers, we more than gain in fruits. - Samuel Butler

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

The grass withers, the flower fades
But the word of our God stands forever. - Isaiah 40:8

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

On Valentine's Day, I wired flowers for my mother-in-law, but she found the fuse. - Milton Berle

I want flowers, I don't want to text. What does that make me? What kind of dinosaur am I? - Jennifer Garner

The rose is fairest when 't is budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. - Walter Scott

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

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. - Alphonse Karr

Plant your garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. - Jose L Borges

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

Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. - Dag Hammarskjold

Whatever I am offered in devotion with a pure heart - a leaf, a flower, fruit, or water - I accept with joy. - Bhagavad Gita

Romance is thinking about your significant other, when you are supposed to be thinking about something else. - Nicholas Sparks

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

The vivacity of children is always charming, because it is always sincere. A grave child is a rose without fragrance. - Unknown

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is also more nourishing. - H L Mencken

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

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

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

Love is like the wild-rose briar, friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? - Emily Bronte