Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.
- Edmund Spenser
Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers feed also the soul.
- The Koran
I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
- Sir Walter Scott