I ’d be a butterfly born in a bower, Where roses and lilies and violets meet.
- Thomas Haynes Bayly
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
- Chinese proverb
Lowly, with a broken neck,
The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
- George Meredith
flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.
-Henry Ward Beckford