Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us.

Earth laughs in flowers.

The perfumes are the feelings of the flowers.

Flowers are one of the few things we buy, bring home, watch die, and we don't ask for our money back.

One of the attractive things about flowers is their magnificent reserve.

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

Where, unwilling, dies the rose Buds the new, another year.

I will be the gladdest thing under the sun I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.

Lovely flowers have been known to grow out of trash heaps.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.

People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.

He was quite eloquent on the subject of flowers, which he loves because 'they're not always borrowing money'.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creations braggart lords.

The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The flower in the vase still smiles, but no longer laughs.

Flowers are the sweetest thing God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Without the gift of flowers and the infinite diversity of their fruits, man and bird, if they had continued to exist at all, would be today unrecognizable.