| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity." »Kabbalah |
| "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 |
| "How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold Because the lovely little flower is free Down to its root, and in that freedom bold." »William Wordsworth |
| "When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Kindness in ourselves is the honey that blunts the sting of unkindness in another." »Walter Savage Landor |
| "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees." »Kenneth Kaunda |
| "The honey from the flowers of the senses, Ever present within, ruler of time, Goes beyond fear. For this Self is Supreme" »Maitri Upanishads |
| "We get new ideas from God every hour of our day when we put our trust in Him -- but we have to follow that inspiration up with perspiration -- we have to work to prove our faith. Remember that the bee that hangs around the hive never gets any honey." »Albert E. Cliffe |
| "He who does not attempt to make peace When small discords arise, Is like the bee's hive which leaks drops of honey Soon, the whole hive collapses." »Siddha Nagarjuna |
| "Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan |
| "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton |
| "Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf." »Lewis Mumford |
| "If you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment." »Georgia O'Keeffe |
| "We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne." »Marcus Aelius Aurelius |
| "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire |
| "Praise is like sunlight to the human spirit we cannot flower and grow without it." »Jesse Lair |
| "If you water a plant with poison it will embrace it and flower accordingly or die." »Terpsichore Lindeman |
| "The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is an example of the eternal seductiveness of life." »Jean Giraudoux |
| "To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears." »William Wordsworth |
| "There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords." »John Muir |
| "The adoration of his heart had been to her only as the perfume of a wild flower, which she had carelessly crushed with her foot in passing." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| "This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet." »William Shakespeare |
| "The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air." »T. Starr King |
| "Love is the flower of life, and blossoms unexpectedly and without law, and must be plucked where it is found, and enjoyed for the brief hour of its duration." »D. H. Lawrence |
| "If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give." »George MacDonald |
| "The trebling of the population in this small and impoverished country, flowing with milk and honey but not with sufficient water, rich in rocks and sand dunes but poor in natural resources and vital raw materials, has been no easy task Indeed, practical men, with their eyes fixed upon things as they are, regarded it as an empty and insubstantial utopian dream." »Benjamin Nnamdi Azikiwe |
| "To see a world in a Grain of Sand, And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour." »William Blake |
| "Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us put out more and better ideas if our efforts are truly appreciated." »Alexander Osborn |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
