Albatross Quote by Gene Weingarten

We should manage our thoughts as shepherds do their flowers in making a garland: first, select the choicest, and then dispose them in the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.

— Friedrich Schiller

One flower makes no garland.

— George Herbert

“Let us hang garlands of celery across our foreheads and call a festival to Dionysos.”

— Anakreon

As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good…

— Anonymous

Like a necktie or a bouquet of flowers, an idea was best if one did not fuss with it too much

— Galen Beckett

“a dead branch can not produce flowers”

— mariam

“Remember we are all connected by a garland we call love.”

— Debasish Mridha

Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair…

— Isabella Bird

Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.

— Lionel Shriver

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath…

— Hannah More

Blossoms are scattered by the wind and the wind cares nothing but the blossoms of the heart no wind can touch.

— Yoshida Kenko