Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887.

Flower

All flowers are not for nosegays.

All flowers are not in one garland.

As welcome as flowers in May.

Every flower has its perfume.Turkish.

Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside.German.

Flowers are the pledges of fruit.Danish.

Flowers are the poetry of earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.

Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
And waste its sweetness on the desert air.Gray.

It is a bad soil where no flowers will grow.

It is not every flower that smells sweet.Italian.

Nobody is fond of fading flowers.

Not all flowers are fit for nosegays.German.

One flower does not make a summer.Turkish.

One flower makes no garland.

Painted flowers have no scent.French, Dutch.

’Tis my faith that every flower
Enjoys the air it breathes.Wordsworth.