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"You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered." »Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince
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"The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose." »Kahlil Gibran
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"Leave not the business of to-day to be done to-morrow; for who knoweth what may be thy condition to-morrow? The rose-garden, which to-day is full of flowers, when to-morrow thou wouldst pluck a rose, may not afford thee one." »Firdausi
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"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
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"The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose." »Richter
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"He who wants a rose must respect the thorn." »Persian Proverb
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"The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose." »Heda Bejar
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"What's in a name That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." »William Shakespeare
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"Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow." »Frances Hodgson Burnett
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"There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns." »Pilpay
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"I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. THE BELOVED." »Song of Songs 21 Bible
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"If Pete rose brings the Reds in first, they ought to bronze him and put him in cement." »Jerry Coleman
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"Life without sacrifice is like a pretty rose without smell and thorns." »A.Carcani
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"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom." »Chinese Proverb
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"True friendship is like a rose. We can't realize it's beauty until it fades." »Unknown
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"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
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"Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense." »Mark A. Overby
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"Go, lovely rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be." »Edmund Waller, Go, Lovely Rose: stanza 1
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"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, from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14
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"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
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"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." »Don Marquis
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"Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying." »Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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"Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow." »Theodore Epp
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"In saffron-colored mantle, from the tides of ocean rose the morning to bring light to gods and men." »Homer
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"California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death." »William Claude Dunkenfield (W. C. Fields)
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"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
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"Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"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
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"Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self congratulation on the excellence of the human mind." »Alfred North Whitehead
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