Flowers

(187 votes)   The Amen of nature is always a flower.

Oliver Wendell Holmes
1809-1894, American Author, Wit, Poet

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(165 votes)   Fair flowers are not left standing along the wayside long.

German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin

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(129 votes)   Roses fall, but the thorns remain.

Dutch Proverbs
Sayings of Dutch Origin

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(109 votes)   To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

William Blake
1757-1827, British Poet, Painter

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(93 votes)   The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

D. H. Lawrence
1885-1930, British Author

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(63 votes)   Weeds are just flowers out of place.

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(57 votes)   Flowers that are so pathetic in their beauty, frail as the clouds, and in their coloring as gorgeous as the heavens, had through thousands of years been the heritage of children -- honored as the jewelry of God only by them -- when suddenly the voice of Christianity, counter-signing the voice of infancy, raised them to a grandeur transcending the Hebrew throne, although founded by God himself, and pronounced Solomon in all his glory not to be arrayed like one of these.

Thomas De Quincey
1785-1859, British Author

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(56 votes)   Earth laughs in flowers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(56 votes)   Every flower is a soul blossoming in Nature.

Gerard De Nerval
1808-1855, French Novelist, Poet

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(54 votes)   Today as in the time of Pliny and Columella, the hyacinth flourishes in Wales, the periwinkle in Illyria, the daisy on the ruins of Numantia; while around them cities have changed their masters and their names, collided and smashed, disappeared into nothingness, their peaceful generations have crossed down the ages as fresh and smiling as on the days of battle.

Edgar Quinet
1803-1875, French Poet, Historian, Politician

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(53 votes)   Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning.

Lydia M. Child
1802-1880, American Abolitionist, Writer, Editor

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(51 votes)   Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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(51 votes)   He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(48 votes)   Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist

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(47 votes)   One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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