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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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!J.R.R. Tolkien
Source: The Hobbit - Chapter 1 - An Unexpected Party
Quoted: Bilbo
Bilbo Baggins describing the fireworks of Gandalf.
Springtime flowers bloom like colorful arrows piercing their way to the sun.Terri Guillemets
The blossoms in the spring are the fruit in autumn.
The cherry blossom among flowers, the warrior among men.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.D.H. Lawrence
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon.(unknown author)
The most fragrant of flowers are eaten by the green-fly.
The rose has its thorn, the peach its worm.
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.Terri Guillemets
The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.Willa Sibert Cather
The wise bee does not sip from a flower that has fallen.
To make one pound of clover honey, bees have to visit about ten million blossoms.Richard Dawkins
Source: Climbing Mount Improbable
To see a World in a Grain of SandWilliam Blake
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.Charles Hare
We are getting by on our hips and hops.A common British wartime expression. Refers to the fact that during World War II the British relied on rose hips and hops as sources for their vitamins A and C.
We called the album 'Amarantine' to mean everlasting. Poets use the word to describe an everlasting flower and I loved the image of that. xEnya
Amaranthus species are grown as ornamental plants for their flowers, or for their grains, or are used as a leaf vegetable.
We will be grateful to flowers only if they have born fruits.
What does the blind man know of the beauty of the tulip?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.William Shakespeare
While honey lies in every flower, it takes a bee to get the honey out.
You are like the butterfly that flies from flower to flower.
Your two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.Bible
Source: Song of Solomon
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