“Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.”
Dr. Richard Selzer
“Life is the flower for which love is the honey.”
Victor Hugo
“All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of yesterday”
Proverb
“Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them”
Chinese Proverbs
“By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes”
James Russell Lowell
“If I should go before the rest of you Break not a flower nor inscribe a stone, Nor when I'm gone speak in a Sunday voice But be the usual selves that I have known. Weep if you must, Parting is hell, But life goes on, So sing as well.”
Joyce Grenfell