On this hub I would like to share with you some of my favourite quotations about flowers from the minds of great leaders, painters, great men and women. Mainly inspiring and positive affirmation on the beauty of flowers, also some thoughful proverbs about flowers from different cultures.

If you have a favourite quote about flowers, please feel free to add it on the comment box.

• Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ~Henry Beecher, Life Thoughts, 1858

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1844

• Where flowers bloom so does hope. - Lady Bird Johnson

• I will be the gladdest thing under the sun! I will touch a hundred flowers and not pick one. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Be like the flower, turn your faces to the sun.

  - Kahlil Gibran

• Bread feeds the body, indeed, but flowers also feed the soul. - The Koran

• When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other. ~Chinese Proverb

• The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends. - Persian Proverb

• Happiness is to hold flowers in both hands. -Japanese Proverbs

• The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. - Chinese proverb

• All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today. - Indian Proverb

• Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them. ~ Chinese proverb

• April showers bring forth May flowers. ~ English Proverb

• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. - Emma Goldman

• Bloom where you are planted. - Mary Engelbreit

• There are always flowers for those who want to see them. ~ Henri Matisse

• A flower is relatively small... Still in a way-nobody sees a flower-so I said to myself-I'll paint it big. ~ Georgia O'Keefe

• Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. ~ Sigmund Freud

• Flowers are love's truest language ~Park Benjamin (1809-1864)

• What's in a name? that which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet. - Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

• The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. ~ Charles Dickens

• I've always thought my flowers had souls. ~ Myrtle Reed

• The flowers take the tears of weeping night, and give them to the sun for the day's delight. ~ Joseph Cotter

• Let us open our leaves like a flower and be passive and receptive. -John Keats

• The men of experiment are like the ant; they only collect and use. But the bee . . . gathers its materials from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

• As from a large heap of flowers many garlands and wreaths are made, so by a mortal in this life there is much good work to be done. ~ Buddha

• All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. ~ Abraham Lincoln

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