| "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 |
| "I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue." »Dolly Payne Todd Madison |
| "Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf." »American Indian Proverb |
| "The pen is the tongue of the mind." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "The deeper the sorrow the less tongue it hath." »The Talmud |
| "My tongue swore, but my mind was still unpledged." »Euripides |
| "Be slow of tongue and quick of eye." »Miguel de Cervantes |
| "A man's ruin lies in his tongue." »Egyptian Proverb |
| "When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole." »William Makepeace Thackeray |
| "Democracy is not a fragile flower still it needs cultivating." »Ronald Reagan |
| "The flower that follows the sun does so even on cloudy days." »Robert Leighton |
| "Life is the flower for which love is the honey." »Victor Hugo |
| "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 |
| "Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue." »Jean Baptiste Rousseau |
| "The tongue weighs practically nothing, But so few people can hold it." »Unknown |
| "It is easier to talk than to hold one's tongue." »Greek Proverb |
| "For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these 'It might have been'" »John Greenleaf Whittier |
| "Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit." »Jeremy Taylor |
| "We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less." »Laertius Diogenes |
| "No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue." »Sir Philip Sidney |
| "Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage." »Publilius Syrus |
| "Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf." »American Indian Proverb |
| "Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say." »Charles Caleb Colton |
| "Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue." »Hesiod |
| "No one flower can ever symbolize this nation. America is a bouquet." »William Safire |
| "While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head." »William Shakespeare |
| "The wise man has long ears and a short tongue." »German proverb |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
