May 5, 2023: Quotes About Flowers
April showers bring May flowers, right? Enjoy these flowery quotes about the blooms of the season.
“If April showers should come your way, they bring the flowers that bloom in May.” —Buddy de Sylva
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.” —Unknown
“What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you dreamed? And what if, in your dream, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if, when you awoke, you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“Minds are like flowers; they open only when the time is right.” —Stephen Richards
“Most pleasures, like flowers, when gathered, die.” —Edward Young
“If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for a moment.” —Georgia O’Keeffe
“What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.” —Joseph Addison
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.” —H.L. Mencken
“Where flowers bloom so does hope.” —Lady Bird Johnson
“To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.” —William Blake
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not love it.” —Dogen
“Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.” —Charles M. Schwab
“I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.” —Claude Monet
“Happiness held is the seed; Happiness shared is the flower.” —John Harrigan
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