Saturday in the Garden

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.~ Emma Goldman

In friendship's fragrant garden,There are flowers of every hue.Each with its own fair beauty And its gift of joy for you.- Friendship's Garden

He who wants a rose must respect the thorn. Persian Proverb

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.- Abraham Lincoln

Where flowers bloom so does hope.~ Lady Bird Johnson

The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends.~ Persian Proverb

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even one solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.- Vita Sackville-West