Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man’s is but weeds. ~ Indian Proverb
Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams. ~ Japanese Proverb
When you are polite, the others think they are wearing flowers. ~ Japanese Proverb
When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited. ~ Rama Krishna
We will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
We grow like flowers, and bear desire, the odor of the human flowers. ~ Richard Henry Stoddard
Unspoken words are the flowers of silence. ~ Japanese Proverb
To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ~ William Wordsworth
To create a little flower is the labor of ages. ~ William Blake
To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed. ~ Finnish Proverb
These stars of earth, these golden flowers. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Basho
There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment. ~ William Shakespeare
The opening and the folding flowers, that laugh to the summer’s day. ~ Mrs. Felicia D. Hemans
The Japanese say, if the flower is to be beautiful, it must be cultivated. ~ Lester Cole
The flowers in your garden don’t smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer. ~ Chinese Proverb
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ~ William Wordsworth
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. ~ Archbishop Robert Leighton
The flower of kindness will grow. Maybe not now, but it will some day. And in kind that kindness will flow, for kindness grows in this way. ~ Robert Alan
The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life. ~ Jean Giraudoux
The flower in the vase smiles, but no longer laughs. ~ Malcolm De Chazal
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure. ~ D. H. Lawrence
The country where flowers are expensive lacks the foundation of culture. ~ Chinese Proverb
The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand. ~ Francis Bacon
That queen of secrecy, the violet. ~ John Keats
Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing. ~ Thomas Moore
Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower. ~ Charles M. Schwab
Perfumes are the feelings of flowers. ~ Heinrich Heine
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ~ Marcelene Cox
Lovely flowers are smiles of God’s goodness. ~ Dr. Samuel Wilberforce
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another. ~ Thomas Buchanan Read
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo
Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~ Hans Christian Andersen
I’d go without food if I could have a flower. ~ Caryl Churchill
I love to smell flowers in the dark … You get hold of their soul then. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman’s love. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. ~ George Eliot
How like they are to human things! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God. ~ Ludwig Tieck
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. ~ Mary Howitt
Give because you love to give — as the flower pours forth its perfume. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Flowers preach to us if we will hear. ~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
Flowers are words which even a babe may understand. ~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Flowers are like the pleasures of the world. ~ William Shakespeare
Flowers and fruits are always fit presents–flowers, because they are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Flowers always make people better, happier and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine to the soul. ~ Luther Burbank
Each flower is a soul blossoming out to nature. ~ Gerard De Nerval
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers. ~ Japanese Proverb
As perfume is to the flower, so is kindness to speech. ~ Katherine Francke
April showers bring May flowers. ~ English Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~ Maltese Proverb
