Quote by Henry Ward Beecher

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to put a soul into.

Flowers are the sweetest things God ever made and forgot to

Summary

This quote is saying that flowers possess an inherent sweetness and beauty, yet lack a sentient soul or consciousness. It implies that while flowers are exquisite creations of nature, they lack the complexity and depth of emotions observed in living beings. The quote may underline the perception that flowers, although lacking consciousness, still bring joy and beauty to the world.

Topics

God Nature

By Henry Ward Beecher

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate suc

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Nature

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for

A debt is just as hard for a Government to pay as it is for an individual. No debt ever comes due at a good time. Borrowing is the only thing that seems handy all the time.

Will Rogers, March 1, 1931

Debt / Borrow / Loan

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the recor

If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record.

Winning Winners

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts

Men, as well as women, are much oftener led by their hearts than by their understandings.

Lord Chesterfield

Heart

What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date get

What I remember most about junior homecoming was my date getting sick afterwards. That kinda sucked. Then, senior year, someone got gum in her hair when we were dancing. She had to get one of the chaperones to take her to the office and cut up her hair. I felt really bad for her, but it worked out fine.

Dating

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, beca

When I'm writing, I'm constantly thinking about myself, because it's the only experience I have to draw on. And I don't see an exact reflection of myself in every face in the audience, but I know that my songs have validity to them, and that's why the fans are there.

Chester Bennington

Experience

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half

Education is not a discipline at all. Half vocational, half an emptiness dressed up in garments borrowed from philosophy, psychology, literature.

Education

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approache

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Benjamin Haydon

Art

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Search others for their virtues, thy self for thy vices

Benjamin Franklin

Virtue Vice

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

I was the least Pop of all the Pop artists.

Freedom

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and un

Although our productions have afforded more extensive and unaffected pleasure than those of any other literary corporation in the world, no species of composition has been so much decried. And what are you reading, Miss -- -? Oh! it is only a novel! replies the young lady; while she lays down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame. It is only Cecilia, or Camilla, or Belinda ; or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humor, are conveyed to the world in the best chosen language.

Authors & Writing

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after

I was an economics major in college, and every summer after school, I would drive my car from California, from Claremont men's college at the time, to New York. And I worked on Wall Street.