Flower, Antoine de Saint-Exupery

One should never listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance.

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900-1944)

Rose, Anonymous

If you call a rose a stinkweed, it might not smell as sweet.

- Anonymous

Friend, Georgia O'Keeffe

Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven't time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.

- Georgia O'Keeffe

Appearance, James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

- James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

Personality, Western Proverb

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

- Western Proverb

Spring, Western Proverb

April Showers bring May flowers.

- Western Proverb

Advice, Western Proverb

A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.

- Western Proverb

Wisdom, Western Proverb

Painted flowers have no scent.

- Western Proverb

Wisdom, Western Proverb

If you would enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.

- Western Proverb

Rose, German Proverb

No rose without a thorn.

- German Proverb

Beauty, Latin Proverb

When the rose dies, the thorn is left behind.

- Latin Proverb

Beauty, Western Proverb

A rose is sweeter in the bud than full blown.

- English Proverb, Western Proverb

Death·Immortality, Edvard Munch

From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.

- Edvard Munch (1863-1944)

Flower, Arthur C. Coxe

Flowers are words which even a baby can understand.

- Arthur Cleveland Coxe (1818-1896)