Carnations vs. Roses

A flower blossoms for its own joy. - Oscar Wilde

Generosity is the flower of justice. - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Every flower must grow through dirt. - Unknown

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

An old man loved is winter with flowers. - Unknown

But ne'er the rose without the thorn. - Robert Herrick

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

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

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. - Ovid

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

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

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

The fuchsia is the world's most carefully spelled flower. - Jimmy Barnes

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

Where man sees but withered leaves, God sees sweet flowers growing. - Albert Laighton

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. - Richard B. Sheridan

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

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

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

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

The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. - William Cowper

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

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

Forgiveness is the fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it. - David Jeremiah

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

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

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you... I could walk through my garden forever. - Alfred Tennyson

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

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

Why buy flowers for Valentine's Day? Just go to a cemetery and collect a dozen off a few graves. - Jarod Kintz

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

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

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

Vacation Time: That period when the flowers in the home garden are at their best and only the neighbours are around to enjoy them - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon - instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. - Dale Carnegie