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A watched flower never blooms, while a carelessly planted willow grows into shade.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden

A fragrant bloom is not necessarily a beautiful flower; an orator may not be a crackerjack.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden

A flower you plant may not necessarily bloom; but the seed of a tree you happen to drop may grow into a forest.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about garden

A country where flowers are priced so as to make them a luxury has yet to learn the first principles of civilization.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about civilization, flowers, country

Olive flowers in June, olives in the hand.

Proverbs and old sayings about flowers

Mint flower: the more you say go away, the closer it comes.

Proverbs and old sayings about garden

When peaches flower and ripen, days and nights have the same length.

Proverbs and old sayings about garden, day

Beauty is a fading flower.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about garden, beauty

Benefits please like flowers, when they are fresh.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about flowers

Benefits, like flowers, please most when they are fresh.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about flowers

Painted flowers have no odour.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about flowers

All flowers are not fit for nosegays.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about flowers

For the benefit of the flowers, we water the thorns, too.

Proverbs and old sayings Egyptian about flowers, water

April showers bring May flowers.

Proverbs and old sayings English about flowers

All flowers are not in one garland.

Proverbs and old sayings English about flowers

Bees touch no fading flowers.

Proverbs and old sayings French about flowers

One flower maketh not a bouquet.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

One flower does not make a garland.

Proverbs and old sayings French about garden

Snakes prefer to hide under flowers.

Proverbs and old sayings French about flowers

Fair flowers do not remain long by the wayside.

Proverbs and old sayings French about flowers