People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
- Iris Murdoch
Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
- Ikkyu Sojun
Roses red and violets blew, And all the sweetest flowers that in the forest grew.
- Edmund Spenser
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
- Alphonse Karr