God loved the flowers and invented soil. Man loved the flowers and invented vases.
- Variation of a saying by Jacques Deval
I didn't know the names of the flowers
now my garden is gone.
- Allen Ginsberg
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
It will never rain roses.
When we want to have more roses,
we must plant more roses.
- George Eliot