Roses are red
Violets are blue
Sugar is sweet
But not as sweet as you
- Thom Bodebt
The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
- Tennessee Williams
I didn't know what narcissism was until I beheld my own narcissus.
- Charles Kuralt
Science, or para-science, tells us that geraniums bloom better if they are spoken to.
But a kind word every now and then is really quite enough.
Too much attention, like too much feeding, and weeding and hoeing,
inhibits and embarrasses them.
- Victoria Glendinning