Sayings about Flowers
A person without a spouse is like a vase without flowers. ~ Cape Verdean Proverb
Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams. ~ Japanese Proverb
Around a flowering tree, there are many insects. ~ Guinean Proverb
The flowers in your garden don’t smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer. ~ Chinese Proverb
The most beautiful flowers flourish in the shade. ~ Japanese Proverb
Early flowers give no seed. ~ Spanish Proverb
In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation. ~ Russian Proverb
We will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
Unspoken words are the flowers of silence. ~ Japanese Proverb
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~ Traditional Proverb
A good bee will not go to a drooping flower. ~ Romanian Proverb
There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~ Maltese Proverb
Butterflies come to pretty flowers. ~ Korean Proverb
Fortune and flowers do not last forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
Lovely flowers fade fast. ~ Swedish Proverb
A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch. ~ Mexican Proverbs
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers. ~ Japanese Proverb
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed. ~ Finnish Proverb
Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man’s is but weeds. ~ Indian Proverb
April showers bring May flowers. ~ English Proverb
A person without a spouse is like a vase without flowers. ~ Cape Verdean Proverb
Yesterday’s flowers are today’s dreams. ~ Japanese Proverb
Around a flowering tree, there are many insects. ~ Guinean Proverb
The flowers in your garden don’t smell as sweet as those in the wild, but they last much longer. ~ Chinese Proverb
The most beautiful flowers flourish in the shade. ~ Japanese Proverb
Early flowers give no seed. ~ Spanish Proverb
In the garden of time grows the flower of consolation. ~ Russian Proverb
We will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits. ~ Zimbabwean Proverb
Unspoken words are the flowers of silence. ~ Japanese Proverb
Cheerfulness is the very flower of health. ~ Traditional Proverb
A good bee will not go to a drooping flower. ~ Romanian Proverbs
There are three things that refresh the heart and reduce your grief water, flowers, and a beautiful woman. ~ Sanskrit Proverb
A kiss without a hug is like a flower without the fragrance. ~ Maltese Proverb
Butterflies come to pretty flowers. ~ Korean Proverbs
Fortune and flowers do not last forever. ~ Chinese Proverb
Lovely flowers fade fast. ~ Swedish Proverbs
A person born to be a flower pot will not go beyond the porch. ~ Mexican Proverbs
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers. ~ Japanese Proverbs
An old man in love is like a flower in winter. ~ Portuguese Proverbs
To an optimist every weed is a flower; to a pessimist every flower is a weed. ~ Finnish Proverbs
Your own wealth is flowers and wine; the other man’s is but weeds. ~ Indian Proverbs
April showers bring May flowers. ~ English Proverbs
Quotations about Flowers
Our finest flowers are often weeds transplanted. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same. ~ Helen Keller Quotes
To me, the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. ~ William Wordsworth
Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out values all the utilities of the world. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about. ~ George Eliot Quotes
The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly. ~ William Wordsworth Quotes
Look how the blue-eyed violets glance love to one another. ~ Thomas Buchanan Read
I do love violets; they tell the history of woman’s love. ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Flowers spring up unsown and die ungathered. ~ William Cullen Bryant
Let us dance in the sun, wearing wild flowers in our hair… ~ Susan Polis Shutz
One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements. ~ Marcelene Cox
Flowers are words which even a babe may understand. ~ Arthur Cleveland Coxe
Just as a flower gives out its fragrance to whomsoever approaches or uses it, so love from within us radiates towards everybody and manifests as spontaneous service. ~ Swami Ramdas
Just living is not enough… One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ~ Hans Christian Andersen
He is happiest who hath power to gather wisdom from a flower. ~ Mary Howitt
For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Lovely flowers are smiles of God’s goodness. ~ Dr. Samuel Wilberforce
I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers. ~ Claude Monet
There is nothing you can see that is not a flower; there is nothing you can think that is not the moon. ~ Matsuo Basho
Flowers grow out of dark moments. ~ Corita Kent
I’d go without food if I could have a flower. ~ Caryl Churchill
How like they are to human things! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These stars of earth, these golden flowers. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen. ~ James Joyce
Give because you love to give — as the flower pours forth its perfume. ~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days. ~ Archbishop Robert Leighton
Let me look upward into the branches of the flowering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well. ~ Wilfred A. Peterson
Flowers, leaves, fruit, are the air-woven children of light. ~ Jacob Moleschott
Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men and animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others again are plain, honest and upright, like the broad-faced sunflower and the hollyhock. ~ Henry Ward Beecher Quotes
Flowers preach to us if we will hear. ~ Christina Georgina Rossetti
Many people have never learned to see the beauty of flowers, especially those that grow unnoticed. ~ Erika Just
He who does not love flowers has lost all love and fear of God. ~ Ludwig Tieck
Life is the flower for which love is the honey. ~ Victor Hugo Qoutes
Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower. ~ John Harrigan
To create a little flower is the labor of ages. ~ William Blake Quotes
I love to smell flowers in the dark … You get hold of their soul then. ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not. ~ Dhammapada
Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound. ~ Edwin Curran
I hate flowers — I paint them because they’re cheaper than models and they don’t move. ~ Georgia O’keeffe