Can you really put into words how beautiful flowers are and do them justice? We doubt it.
But some have certainly tried! See our favorite proverbs and quotes below. 

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." 

~ Mark Twain

"Every rose is prey to winter."

~ Rumi

"All the flowers of the future are in seeds of today."

~ Unknown, Old Chinese Proverb

"Flowers are the music of the ground from earth's lips spoken without sound." 

~ Edwin Curran

"Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them."

~ Unknown, Old Chinese Proverb

"It's the time you spent on your rose that makes your rose so important."

~ Edwin Curran

"A flower does not use words to announce its arrival to the world, it just blooms."

~ Matshona Dhliwayo

"Flowers don't tell, they show."

~ Stephanie Skeem

"Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts."

~ Sigmund Freud

"Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks."

~ G.K. Chesterton

"Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks."

~ G.K. Chesterton

"When a flower doesn't bloom, you fix the environment in which it grows, not the flower."

~ Alexander Den Heijer

"'I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

~ Emma Goldman

"Love is the flower you've got to let grow."

~ John Lennon