Earth laughs in flowers.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night.
—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) Austrian Poet
One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies, for example.
—John Ruskin (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic
Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
—Dutch Proverb
Flowers are happy things.
—P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) British Novelist, Short-story Writer, Playwright
I hate flowers—I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move.
—Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) American Painter
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850) English Poet
Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
—Maurice Maeterlinck (1862–1949) Belgian Poet, Playwright, Essayist
To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.
—Christian Nestell Bovee (1820–1904) American Writer, Aphorist
All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday
—Common Proverb
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
—Luther Burbank (1849–1926) American Botanist, Scientist
Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children—honored as the jewelry of God only by them—when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.
—Thomas de Quincey (1785–1859) English Essayist, Critic
There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its heavenly Maker.
—Robert South (1634–1716) English Theologian, Preacher
Flowers are God’s way of smiling
—Common Proverb
Flowers leave their fragrance on the hand that bestows them.
—Chinese Proverb
From the withered tree, a flower blooms.
—Unknown
He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.
—Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist
Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.
—Edgar Quinet (1803–75) French Historian, Poet
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
—Claude Monet (1840–1926) French Impressionist painter
The lotus flower is troubled
At the sun’s resplendent light;
With sunken head and sadly
She dreamily waits for the night.
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer
From the withered tree, a flower blooms.
—Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
I wonder what spendthrift chose to spill
Such a bright gold under my windowsill!
Is it fair gold? Does it glitter still?
Bless me! It’s a daffodil!
—Celia Thaxter (1835–94) American Poet, Writer
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.
—Matsuo Basho (1644–94) Japanese Poet
A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over.
—Honore de Balzac (1799–1850) French Novelist
A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
—Walt Whitman (1819–92) American Poet, Essayist, Journalist, American, Poet, Essayist, Journalist
Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.
—German Proverb
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers.
—Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German Poet, Writer
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