50 Funny & Inspirational Flower Puns & Quotes
Flowers are beautiful gifts for any occasion, and they are always welcome. The sight of flowers can bring a smile to anyone’s face. This is why so many great personalities have chosen flowers as their muse and written beautiful things after getting inspired by them. In this blog, we have incorporated some lovely and inspiring thoughts regarding flowers and made a list of unique Flower Puns & Quotes so that you can talk in the flower language! Let’s dive in.
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Inspirational Flower Quotes:
1. “If roses tried to be sunflowers, they would lose their beauty; and if sunflowers tried to be roses, they would lose their strength.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
2. “As delicate as a flower, as tender as rose petals, choosing to be tender and kind in a harsh environment is not weakness. It’s courage.” – Luffing Lourduraj
3. “Through primrose tufts, in that green bower,
The periwinkle trails its wreath;
And ’tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.” – William Wordsworth (“Written in Early Spring”)
4. “- Alice: Oh, but that’s nonsense. Flowers can’t talk.
– The Rose: But of course, we can talk, my dear.
– Orchid: If there’s anyone around worth talking to.
– Daisy: Or about.” – Alice in Wonderland.
5 “The very best relationship has a gardener and a flower. The gardener nurtures, and the flower blooms.”– Carole Radziwill
6. “The word flower thrives in every language,
adorning what everyone says and imagines
with the beautiful thought of flowers
which teach by timeless example
that life goes by anyway; you might as well
Flower” — Kate Farrell
7.” The bud
stands for all things,
even for those things that don’t flower,
for everything flowers, from within, of self-blessing;” – Galway Kinnel.
8. “They’ll surprise you.
They’ll remind you
that they aren’t
and they are you. (Flowers)” – Wendy Videlock.
9. “A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in–what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars” — Victor Hugo
10. “O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June” – Robert Burns ( “A Red, Red Rose”)
11. “Do not linger to gather flowers to keep them, but walk on, for flowers will keep themselves blooming all your way” — Rabindranath Tagore
12. “The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.”– Honore de Balzac
13. “A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
14. 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
15. God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring. It is his will that we should love. — Victor Hugo
16. If someone smells a flower and says he does not understand, the reply to him is: there is nothing to understand, it is only a scent. If he persists, saying: that I know, but what does it all mean? Then one has either to change the subject or make it more abstruse by saying that the scent is the shape which the universal joy takes in the flower. — Rabindranath Tagore
17. “A flower’s appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.”– Terri Guillemets
18. “You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.”– Walter Hagen
19. “Roses do not bloom hurriedly; for beauty, like any masterpiece, takes time to blossom.”- ― Matshona Dhliwayo
20. “Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.”– Buddha
22. When you like a flower, you just pluck it. But when you love a flower, you water it daily. – Buddha
23. “If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.” – Frances Burnett
24. “There are always flowers for those who want to see them” –Henri Matisse
25. “She wore flowers in her hair and carried magic secrets in her eyes. She spoke to no one. She spent hours on the riverbank. She smoked cigarettes and had midnight swims…”
― Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
26. Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.
(Indian Proverb)
27. “Not speaking is the flower”. Meaning- “Some things are better left unsaid; Silence is golden”. (Japanese Proverb)
28. “Flowers are the music of the ground. From earth’s lips spoken without sound.” – Edwin Curran
29. “She sprouted love like flowers, grew a garden in her mind, and even on the darkest days, From her smile the sun still shined.” – Erin Hanson
30. “Just like the rose holds her beauty among the thorns- we can gather our strength from the most unlikely places.” ― Christine Evangelou.
Funny Flower Quotes
31. If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.” – Doug Larson
32. “One sure way to lose another woman’s friendship is to try to improve her flower arrangements”. – Marcelene Cox.
33. “Flowers are not made by singing ‘Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade”. – Rudyard Kipling.
34. Why not a space flower? Why do we always expect metal ships?” – W. D. Richter
35. “If someone throws a stone at you, throw a flower at them. But remember to throw the flower pot with it”. Minions.
36. “If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.” – Alan Bennett
37. “Don’t send me flowers when I’m dead. If you like me, send them while I’m alive.” – Brian Clough
38. I saw this flower and thought of you because it’s pretty and… Well, I don’t really like it, but I thought you might like it, ’cause you’re pretty. – Shrek in Shrek
39. “I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They’re so tall and simple.”
RUTH GORDON – Maude
40. “I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.” – Herbert Rappaport
Flower Puns
41. Thistle settle your account.
42. I rose today with a smile on my face.
43. I am a lily bit nervous.
44. Every daisy is spent in your thoughts.
45. A peony saved is a peony earned.
46. Iris you were here.
47. Who has the thyme these days?
48. Issues rose quickly. I don’t know where they stem from?
49. Be-leaf in yourself.
50. Aloe, best bud!
Conclusion
“Flowers show don’t tell”. So sending a flower bouquet to your loved one is the best way to convey your heartfelt emotions. So, pick your favourite blooms and make your flower bouquet with these inspirational flower puns and quotes.
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