Weirdly Minty

“All cities are mad:  but the madness is gallant.  All cities are beautiful:  but the beauty is grim.”

~Christopher Morley

“Tis the last rose of summer, / Left blooming alone; / All her lovely companions / Are faded and gone.”

~Thomas Moore

‘O Tiger-lily,’ said Alice, addressing herself to one that was waving gracefully about in the wind, ‘I wish you could talk!’ ‘We can talk,’ said the Tiger-lily: ‘when there’s anybody worth talking to.”

~Alice in Wonderland

“What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our starts the flowers of the heaven.”

~A.J. Balfour

“This love of ours is no common flower / This love is like a red, red rose.”

~David Mallett

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.”

“The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.”

~William Shakespeare

“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious.  And why shouldn’t it be? - it is the same the angels breathe.”

~Mark Twain

“I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.”

~Henry David Thoreau

“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.”

~Leviticus 25:10