Quips and Quotations (Vegetation Variations Edition)

 

I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine against a wall". 

--Eleanor Roosevelt, from a speech given at the White Shrine Club, Fresno, California, early 1960s, quoted in The Event Makers I’ve Known (2012) by Elvin C. Bell, p. 161.

 

Quips and Quotations

Burson Fouch: I remember in one flower shop there was a whole wall covered with poison ivy, and people came from miles around to look at that wall and they stayed to buy.

Gravis Mushnik: And the owner got rich?

Burson Fouch: No, he scratched himself to death in an insane asylum.

--Little Shop of Horrors (1960) Screenplay by Charles B. Griffith