One of the most attractive things about
the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
- Henry David Thoreau
flowers bring to a liberal and gentlemanly mind the remembrance of honesty, comeliness and all kinds of virtues.
- John Gerard
This old world that we're livin' in is might hard to beat.
You get a thorn with every rose But - ain't the roses sweet?
- Frank Stanton
Earth laughs in flowers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson