Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right." Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.

Denise Levertov

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

William Shakespeare

'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

William Shakespeare

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks...

William Shakespeare

What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds.

William Shakespeare

Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness.

William Shakespeare

O Prosperina, For the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall From Dis's wagon; daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength--a malady Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds, The flower-de-luce being one.

William Shakespeare

Fairies use flowers for their charactery.

Kurt Vonnegut

Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

Camille Paglia

What troubles me about the "hostile workplace" category of sexual harassment policy is that women are being returned to their old status of delicate flowers who must be protected from assault by male lechers. It is anti-feminist to ask for special treatment for women.

C. Northcote Parkinson

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.

Caryl Churchill

I'd go without food if I could have a flower.

Carl Jung

As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols.

Charles Macklin

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

Charles Mackay

There's a fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to glow, There's a flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Men of thought and men of action, Clear the way.

Charles M. Schwab

Personality is to a man what perfume is to a flower.

Charles Godfrey Leland

Among the flowers no perfume is like mine; That which is best in me comes from within. So those in this world who would rise and shine Should seek internal excellence to win. And though 'tis true that falsehood and despair Meet in my name, yet bear it still in mind That where they meet they perish. All is fair When they are gone and nought remains behind.

Charles Fourier

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

Bill Maher

New rule: Tulips aren't flowers. They're some kind of gay onion.

Bernard Malamud

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

Bob Hoskins

I'm very romantic. I've emptied flower shops.

Benjamin Whichcote

The human soul is to God, is as the flower to the sun; it opens at its approach, and shuts when it withdraws.

William Shakespeare

The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment.

William Shakespeare

The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

William Shakespeare

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

William Shakespeare

Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye.

William Shakespeare

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

William Shakespeare

These flowers are like the pleasures of the world.

William Shakespeare

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea, But bad mortality o'ersways their power, How with this rage shall beauty hold a plea, Whose action is no stronger than a flower?

William Shakespeare

Of all the flowers, me thinks a rose is best.

Charles Lindbergh

Ideas are like seeds, apparently insignificant when first held in the hand. Once firmly planted, they can grow and flower into almost anything at all, a cornstalk, or a giant redwood, or a flight across the ocean. Whatever a man imagines, he can achieve.

Charles Lamb

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.

Bill Porter

This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.