May Flowers Quotes:

Sweet April showers do spring May flowers.

- Thomas Tusser

topic: Sweet, Spring, Flower, May Flowers, Spring Day

The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Love, Positive, Summer, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

You are as welcome as the flowers in May.

- Charles Macklin

source: Charles Macklin (1825). “Love a la Mode, Farce. - London, (Oxberry) 1825”, p.15

topic: Flower, May, Welcome, May Flowers

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.

- Jorge Luis Borges

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, May Flowers, Inspirational Gardening

Give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where I can walk undisturbed.

- Walt Whitman

source: Walt Whitman (1868). “Poems”, p.221

topic: Beautiful, Flower, Sunshine, May Flowers, Flower Garden

You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

- Pablo Neruda

topic: Inspiring, Hope, Spring, May Flowers, Spring Day

All the year round there is spring, all through life is youth; there is always something which may flower.

- Karel Capek

topic: Spring, Flower, Years, May Flowers

Dear common flower, that grow'st beside the way, Fringing the dusty road with harmless gold, First pledge of blithesome May, Which children pluck, and, full of pride uphold.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Children, Flower, Pride, May Flowers, Flowers Growing

I think that no matter how old or infirm I may become, I will always plant a large garden in the spring. Who can resist the feelings of hope and joy that one gets from participating in nature's rebirth?

- Edward Giobbi

topic: Spring, Garden, Thinking, March Poems, May Flowers

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.

- Helen Keller

topic: Love, Beauty, Beautiful, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

- George Herbert

topic: Sweet, Spring, Lying, May Flowers, Spring Day

For winter's rains and ruins are over... And in Green under wood and cover Blossum by blossom the spring begins.

- Algernon Charles Swinburne

source: Atalanta in Calydon chorus (1865)

topic: Spring, Rain, Winter, May Flowers, Spring Day

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation's braggart lords.

- John Muir

topic: Nature, Flower, Garden, May Flowers, Inspirational Flower

Dancing of late years has been degraded to the narrow limits and low professionalism of mere mechanical proficiency, associated with the most frivolous... phases of the stage. But this day is fading...We are turning our gaze inward, learning to seek there the divine sources of the dance, to the end that it may flower into new and more glorious forms of beauty and wealth

- Ruth St. Denis

topic: May Flowers, Proficiency

O lovely lily clean, O lily springing green, O lily bursting white, Dear lily of delight, Spring in my heart agen That I may flower to men.

- John Masefield

topic: Spring, Flower, Heart, May Flowers

By the time one is eighty, it is said, there is no longer a tug of war in the garden with the May flowers hauling like mad against the claims of the other months. All is at last in balance and all is serene. The gardener is usually dead, of course.

- Henry Mitchell

source: Henry Mitchell (2003). “The Essential Earthman: Henry Mitchell on Gardening”, p.25, Indiana University Press

topic: War, Flower, Garden, May Flowers, Tug Of War