"Gather the flowers, but spare the buds." — Andrew Marvell

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• Once we hit forty, women only have about four taste buds left: one for vodka, one for wine, one for… — Gina Barreca
• Nip the shoots of arbitrary power in the bud, is the only maxim which can ever preserve the liberties of… — John Quincy Adams
• Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste… — Francesca Annis
• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
• Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the… — Alex Faickney Osborn
• This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet — William Shakespeare
• Sweet, can I sing you the song of your kisses? How soft is this one, how subtle this is, How… — Arthur Symons
• It's the relationships between people that are more important than the sort of far away fantasies of what the good… — Mira Sorvino
• Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year. — Dorothy Parker
• Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose From out night's gray and cloudy sheath; Softly and still it grows… — Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
• Still more labyrinthine buds the rose. — Robert Browning
• [Golfers] are a special kind of moral relist who nips the normal romantic and idealstic yearnings in the bud by… — Alistair Cooke

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