And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
Marie-Antoinette, Queen

Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
The Koran

Where flowers bloom so does hope.
Lady Bird Johnson

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.
Persian Proverb

What's in a name? that which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

Take time to smell the roses.
Unknown

Earth laughs in flowers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.
Evelyn Loeb

In friendship's fragrant garden,
There are flowers of every hue.
Each with its own fair beauty
And its gift of joy for you.
Friendship's Garden

If love were what the rose is,
And I were like the leaf,
Our lives would grow together
In sad or singing weather.
Algernon Charles Swinburne

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb

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

This old world that we're livin' in
Is might hard to beat.
You get a thorn with every Rose
But - ain't the roses sweet?
Frank Stanton

A rose is a rose is a rose.
Gertrude Stein

To be overcome by the fragrance of flowers is a delectable form of defeat.
Beverly Nichols

Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
Chinese Proverb

If dandelions were hard to grow, they would be most welcome on any lawn.
Andrew Mason

Can we conceive what humanity would be if it did not know the flowers?
Maurice Maeterlinck

In joy or sadness, flowers are our constant friends.
Kozuko Okakura

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into.
Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

Flowers are words Which even a babe may understand.
Author: Bishop Arthur Cleveland Coxe

 

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

Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul.
Author: Luther Burbank

Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair...

Susan Polis Shutz