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"Some people are always
grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have
roses."
- Alphonse Karr (French novelist )
"Love is life. And if you miss
love, you miss life."
- Leo Buscaglia
"Every rose has its thorn: You
never find a woman without pins and needles."
- Douglas Jerrold (English
humorist )
Flowers are not made by singing "Oh,
how beautiful," and siting in the shade.
-Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) -
English poet and novelist
"Flowers are the sweetest
things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into."
-Henry Ward Beckford (1759-1844) -
American lecturer
"A cynic is a man who, when he
smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
- H.L. Mencken, American editor
and satirist
"Isn't it odd that flowers are
the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on?"
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946)
- English critic
"When I walk with you, I feel
as if I had a flower in my buttonhole."
-William Makepeace Thackeray
(1811-1863) - English novelist
"Whatever a man's age, he can
reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his
buttonhole."
- Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne
Clemens 1835-1910) - American humorous writer
"Flowers are as common in the
country as people are in London."
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) -
British wit and poet
"Why don't you get a haircut?
You look like a chrysanthemum."
- Pelham Grenville Wodehouse -
English novelist
"God gave us our memories so
that we might have roses in December."
- James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937)
- Scottish novelist
"Life is the flower for which
love is the honey."
- Victor Hugo |
