Bouquet Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old bouquet quotes, bouquet sayings, and bouquet proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

There's still something so pure and heartfelt and emotional and genuine about a bouquet of flowers that, even with all the advances of technology and the millions of ways we have to communicate with each other, flowers are still relevant in my opinion. Vanessa Diffenbaugh
A human life was measured out in bouquets, was it not? New mothers received them. So did graduating seniors, young lovers, blushing brides, and the dead. A flower woman was time's avatar, colorizing the hours, perfuming fleeting instants. James K. Morrow
Can anything be more grotesque and barbarous than our 'florists' bouquets,' a series of concentric rings of flowers of divers colours, bordered by maidenhair and a piece of stiff lace paper, in which stems, leaves, and even petals are brutally crushed, and the grace and individuality of each flower systematically destroyed? Isabella Bird
The bouquet was white as a wedding and spoke of prayers, truth, and an unacquainted heart. Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Tis better to buy a small bouquet / And give to your friend this very day, / Than a bushel of roses white and red / To lay on his coffin after hes dead. Traditional Proverb
He would make a bouquet for a lovely lady; a bouquet gathered off the cheeks of the morning. . . these roses, only half awake, in the defencelessness of utter beauty. Willa Cather
What this old world needs is more bouquets handed around to folks when they are alive and kicking. Flowers don't do a dead one much good. ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES
At break of day I feel as if I'm clasping a bouquet of smiling flowers / But the wind of time does not cease blowing / And the hours wilt like falling petals. Xuân Diệu
Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then. Dwight L. Moody
Glorious bouquets and storms of applause are the trimmings which every artist naturally enjoys. Golda Meir
If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. Henri J.M. Nouwen
When you have a full bouquet you can't sit back and smell each flower. Avner Strauss
Happiness is the art of making a bouquet of those flowers within reach. Bob Goddard
Sometimes we need a bouquet of flowers to keep our spirits up–or a pot of bright cyclamen –or photos of flowers to remind us there is more to come. Bev Drew Kindley
Plant flowers in others' gardens and your life becomes a bouquet! Unknown
When life hands us a beautiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. Dean Koontz
Sometimes an April day will suddenly bring showers / Rain to grow the flowers for her first bouquet Pat Boone
A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits. Andrew Weil
Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. Earl Nightingale
Spring is a time to make up a big bouquet of flowers for someone you love, or are trying to love, or are in love with. Carew Papritz
Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. Ina Garten
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together. Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
We went to buy you two flowers, but neither of us thought just one bouquet would do it. Jamie McGuire
I would far rather have two or three lilies of the valley gathered for me by a person I like, than the most expensive bouquet that could be bought! Elisabeth Gaskell
In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom. Groucho Marx
He who throws bouquets at himself need lose no sleep over the florist's bill. Unknown
One flower maketh not a bouquet. French Proverb