Famous quotes containing the words flower and/or garland:
“I say he’s bonny,
He’s the flower of them all,
My handsome, winsome Johnny.”
—Unknown. I Know Where I’m Going (l. 14–16)
“I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)