Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. Andrew Marvell
There buds the promise of celestial worth. Edward Young
I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn. John Keats
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are. Virginia Woolf
Sometimes sushi is just superb, and other times there's nothing like a great big steak. It depends where your taste buds are at the time. Francesca Annis
Not all the buds on a bush will blossom. Hindi Proverb