A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken

A fox is a wolf who sends flowers.
Ruth Brown

A wedding is a funeral where you smell your own flowers.
Eddie Cantor

A wedding is just like a funeral except that you get to smell your own flowers.
Grace Hansen

Ah, tell me not that memory sheds gladness o'er the past, what is recalled by faded flowers, save that they did not last?
Letitia Landon

All flowers in time bend towards the sun, I know you say there's no one for you, But here is one.
Jeff Buckley

And I came back and it was great, 'cuz George had set up all these flowers all over the studio saying welcome home. So then we got it together again. I always felt it was better on the White one for me. We were more like a band, you know.
Ringo Starr

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.
Thomas Moore

Arranging a bowl of flowers in the morning can give a sense of quiet in a crowded day - like writing a poem or saying a prayer.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.
Lincoln Steffens

Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers - and never succeeding.
Gian Carlo Menotti

As in the rankest soil the most beautiful flowers are grown, so in the dark soil of poverty the choicest flowers of humanity have developed and bloomed.
James Allen

At my age flowers scare me.
George Burns

At present, I am mainly observing the physical motion of mountains, water, trees and flowers. One is everywhere reminded of similar movements in the human body, of similar impulses of joy and suffering in plants.
Egon Schiele

Because we are in a war situation, this can sometimes be dangerous work. But guys like A.D. Flowers and his technicians just take it in stride and get on with the job. In four years, we've never had a serious accident or injury working with all the explosions.
Vic Morrow

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.
Gertrude Stein

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
Ikkyu Sojun

By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Robert A. Heinlein

Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox