| "The optimist sees the ROSE and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the ROSE." »Kahlil Gibran |
| "A relationship is like a ROSE, How long it lasts, no one knows Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die You hope you've found that special ROSE, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose." »Rob Cella |
| "He who wants a ROSE must respect the thorn." »Persian Proverb |
| "There is no gathering the ROSE without being pricked by the thorns." »Pilpay |
| "The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the ROSE." »Heda Bejar |
| "What's in a name That which we call a ROSE By any other name would smell as sweet." »William Shakespeare |
| "I am the ROSE of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible |
| "A thorn defends the ROSE, harming only those who would steal the blossom." »Chinese Proverb |
| "True friendship is like a ROSE. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades." »Unknown |
| "If Pete ROSE brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement." »Jerry Coleman |
| "An idealist is one who, on noticing that a ROSE smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup." »H.L. Mencken |
| "Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a ROSE petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis |
| "The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a ROSE was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot." »Salvador Dali |
| "In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean ROSE the morning to bring light to gods and men." »Homer |
| "In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the ROSE depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be." »Hubert Humphrey |
| "Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the ROSE-garden. My words echo Thus, in your mind." »T. S. Eliot |
| "One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical ROSE garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the ROSEs blooming outside our windows today." »Dale Carnegie |
| "Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and ROSE" »Johann von Goethe |
| "One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance, cooperation, competence, and purpose which Man has suffered since he ROSE up on his hind legs.... He began to chatter and he developed Reason, Thought, and Imagination, qualities which would get the smartest group of rabbits or orioles in the world into inextricable trouble overnight." »James Grover Thurber |
| "Is there anything more beautiful than a beautiful, beautiful flamingo, flying across in front of a beautiful sunset And he's carrying a beautiful ROSE in his beak, and also he's carrying a very beautiful painting with his feet. And also, you're drunk." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts |
| "I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and ROSE an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear When was I less by dying" »Jalal ud-Din Rumi |
| "Weird, isn't it Somehow in the dead of winter when its 40 below, so cold your words just freeze in the air, you think you'll never hear a robin's song again or see a blossom on a cherry tree, when one day you wake up and bingo, light coming through the mini blinds is softened with a tick of ROSE and the cold morning air has lost its bite. It's spring once again, the streets are paved with mud and the hills are alive with the sound of mosquitos." »Andrew Schneider |
| "What treaty have the Sioux made with the white man that we have broken Not one. What treaty have the white man ever made with us that they have kept Not one. When I was a boy the Sioux owned the world the sun ROSE and set on their land they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today Who slew them Where are our lands Who owns them....What law have I broken Is it wrong for me to love my own Is it wicked for me because my skin is red Because I am a Sioux because I was born where my father lived because I would die for my people and my country" »Sitting Bull |
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