Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ......
Alphonse Karr (1808-1890) - French novelist


Every rose has its thorn: You never find a woman without pins and needles. . . . . . . . . .
Douglas Jerrold (1803-1857) - English humorist


Flowers are not made by singing "Oh, how beautiful," and siting in the shade. .....
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) - English poet and novelist


Flowers are the sweetest things that G-d ever made and forgot to put a soul into. ......
Henry Ward Beckford (1759-1844) - American lecturer


A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ......
H.L. Mencken, American editor and satirist


Isn't it odd that flowers are the reproductive organs of the plants they grow on? ......
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865-1946) - English critic


When I walk with you, I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. ......
William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) - English novelist


Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his buttonhole. ......
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens 1835-1910) - American humorous writer


Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London. .....
Oscar Wilde (1856-1900) - British wit and poet


Why don't you get a haircut? You look like a chrysanthemum. ...
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse - English novelist


G-d gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. ......
James Matthew Barrie (1860-1937) - Scottish novelist