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Flower Quotes by Charles Caleb Colton
- Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is to add murder…
- Pleasure is to a woman what the sun is to the flower: if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it…
- Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over…
- Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.
More Flower Quotes
- To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment. — Jane Austen
- In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would,… — Diane Ackerman
- True love stories never have endings. — Richard Bach
- The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent… — Honore de Balzac
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- A young bride is like a plucked flower; but a guilty wife is like a flower that had been walked over. — Honore de Balzac
- Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with… — Honore de Balzac
- Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year. — Franklin P. Adams
- These flowers, which were splendid and sprightly, waking in the dawn of the morning, in the evening will be a pitiful frivolity,… — Pedro Calderon de la Barca
- For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb… — Edward Abbey
- I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
- Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was rebellious by… — Drew Barrymore