Flowers bring color in this world. Here is a collection of quotes and proverbs in which flowers are mentioned. For a similar collection in Dutch language see: bloemen.
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"Just living is not enough" said the butterfly fairy, "one must have sunshine, freedom and a little flower."Hans Christian Andersen
"You are my garden of beautiful roses,Dorothy L. Sayers
My own rose, my one rose, that's you!"
Source: Whose Body?
A flower blooms more than once.If you miss something, you can get another chance later.
A fruit-bearing tree is known by its flowers.
A new year is unfolding - like a blossom with petals curled tightly concealing the beauty within.(unknown author)
A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk.
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
About her feet in wide vessels of green and brown earthenware, white water-lilies were floating, so that she seemed to be enthroned in the midst of a pool.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Goldberry
An old man loved is a winter with flowers.
And the fruits will outdo what the flowers have promised.Francois de Malherbe
April showers bring May flowers.Something bad today may result in something better in the future.
Around a flowering tree, there are many insects.
As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.John Lubbock
Bless the flowers and the weeds, my birds and bees.(unknown author)
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Butterflies come to pretty flowers.
By plucking her petals you do not gather the beauty of the flower.Rabindranath Tagore
Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way.Rabindranath Tagore
Each day you can admire the moon, the snow and the flowers.
Even the white lily casts a shadow.
Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can—if duly considered—read us lectures of ethics or divinity.Thomas Pope Blount
Every rose has its thorn.Every good thing has an unpleasant side.
Everything in the garden is rosy.Everything is satisfactory.
Flower of this purple dye,William Shakespeare
Hit with Cupid's archery,
Sink in apple of his eye.
Source: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 1590
Friends are flowers that never fade.
From the same flower the bee extracts honey and the wasp gall.
Grass is the forgiveness of nature - her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.Brian Ingalls
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.Victor Hugo
How doth the little busy beeIsaac Watts
Improve each shining hour,
And gather honey all the day
From every opening flower!
Source: Divine Songs
I see a line of cars and they're all painted blackThe Rolling Stones
With flowers and my love, both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby, it just happens every day.
Source: Paint it Black Lyrics
I see trees of green, red roses tooLouis Armstrong
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.George Harrison
If nobody cares, then it doesn't matter what happens to flowers.Daniel Dennett
If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.
In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies.J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Fellowship of the Ring
About Tom Bombadil
It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish.
Look at a tree, a flower, a plant. Let your awareness rest upon it. How still they are, how deeply rooted in 'just being'. Allow nature to teach you stillness. When you look at a tree and perceive its stillness, you become still yourself.Eckhart Tolle
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.John Lennon
Love is the flower you've got to let grow.John Lennon
Many flowers, few fruits.
Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.John Steinbeck
No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.Samuel Johnson
Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.Umberto Eco
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
Pushing up daisies.To be dead.
September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.Alexander Theroux
Sisters are different flowers from the same garden.(unknown author)
Snakes prefer to hide under flowers.
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