Quotes about Roses

Life is short, and time is swift; Roses fade, and shadows shift. Votes: 4

Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match Votes: 4

I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime. Votes: 3

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. Votes: 3

Roses are red Violets are blue Everything's possible Nothing is true. Votes: 3

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. Votes: 3

Roses can grow in slums just as weeds can grow around mansions. Votes: 3

Guns 'N' Roses music was part of the fabric of all people. Votes: 3

Roses are red, violets are blue, they got ten, we only got two. Votes: 3

Roses are red, violets are blue, so are my balls thanks to you. Votes: 3

Swans moulting die, snow melts to tears, Roses do blush and hang their heads Votes: 3

I love Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Guns N' Roses and AC/DC. Votes: 3

Roses are my favourite flower, and my mum always grew a lot of them. Votes: 3

I'm the type of guy who likes to be there 24-7. I'm Mr. Roses. Votes: 3

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England. Votes: 3

Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school. Votes: 3

Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish. Votes: 3

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm sick of this poem, you probably are too. Votes: 3

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion. Votes: 3

We've got no hate for each other [in the band Stone Roses], and we never have. Votes: 3

Roses are wilting, Violets are dead,The sugar bowl is empty,and so is your head. Votes: 3

Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you. Votes: 3

Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight. Votes: 3

All of our early hits, 'Danke Schoen' and 'Red Roses,' were produced by Bobby Darin. Votes: 3

The first thing I ever wanted to be was a backup singer for Guns 'n' Roses. Votes: 3

You know why Guns n' Roses aren't a good band? Because no black people listen to them. Votes: 3

I have no desire whatsoever to desecrate the grave of seminal Manchester pop group the Stone Roses. Votes: 3

We have a saying in Guns N Roses: When somebodys gonna get yelled at, theyre gonna get the corn. Votes: 3

We have a saying in Guns N' Roses: 'When somebody's gonna get yelled at, they're gonna get the corn.' Votes: 3

Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be. Votes: 3

For me, the original Guns N' Roses is the embodiment of a certain kind of chemistry that really couldn't be duplicated. Votes: 3

By July we had strawberries, red currants, raspberries, veal, dill, baby turnips, marrow. Mussolini resigned, and Italy capitulated. Roses could be had. Votes: 3

It matters not what goal you seek Its secret here reposesYou've got to dig from week to week To get Results or Roses. Votes: 3

Queen and Bon Jovi, Aerosmith and Guns N' Roses - I had a huge rock-band mania. I play a little bit of drums. Votes: 3

Roses bloom, and then they wither; Cheeks are bright, then fade and die; Shapes of light are wafted hither, Then, like visions, hurry by. Votes: 3

I was into alternative stuff, but I was also open to a little bit of hard rock and metal, like Guns N' Roses, Metallica. Votes: 3

Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A. push shuffle and anything will come on. Votes: 3

Look, I got 11,052 songs on my iPod. Cyndi Lauper, Guns N' Roses, Geto Boys, N.W.A.... push shuffle and anything will come on. Votes: 3

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen. Votes: 3

If they [Guns N' Roses] didn't get back together soon they would have missed their window and no one would have cared in 3 or 4 years. Votes: 3

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter. Votes: 3

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme. Votes: 3

I always looked up to Slash from Guns N' Roses, and I always pictured myself being a rock star and playing the guitar, just going crazy. Votes: 3

Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies laughing where the sun's dart clove her: Love lies bleeding. Votes: 3

September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough. Votes: 3

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults. Votes: 3

But if I was still trying to be in Guns N' Roses while I wasn't in the band... I wouldn't want to maintain an image like that. Votes: 3

The Republican convention, an event with the intellectual content of a Guns'n'Roses lyric attended by every ofay insurance brokerin America who owns a pair of white shoes. Votes: 3

In "Twilight," the narratives are more literal, and the event is much more spectacular. The pictures in "Beneath the Roses" are much more psychological and grounded in reality. Votes: 3

I am not a rock producer. I don't see that. I once turned down Guns N' Roses. I don't like shouting. I'm a melody guy. I love great melody. Votes: 3

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old. Votes: 3

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together Votes: 3

The real shame about the ending of the Guns N' Roses when I got kicked out wasn't just that I got kicked out, but Slash and Axl stopped working together. Votes: 3

One of my favorite quotes ever was from Slash from Guns and Roses and he said 'to be truly iconic, you need to be able to recognized in a silhouette' Votes: 3

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them. Votes: 3

The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N Roses. I would like to finish what I started with them. Votes: 3

There are a lot of bands that have a huge appeal, but I don't understand why. Guns n' Roses. U2. But you know, that's just my thing. Music is pretty personal. Votes: 3

Sometimes the scariest things in life aren't the Vampires and the Werewolves, sometimes there are things even God doesn't want to know about. Which is why he created the Devil's Roses. Votes: 3

Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings. Votes: 3

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door. Votes: 3

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us. Votes: 3

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Votes: 3

Basketball talent is basketball talent, no matter if it comes from the suburbs or the city. Take the time to know and understand me before you judge me. Only God can do that. Roses do grow from concrete! Votes: 3

I like a little bit of everything. I think I'll put on Guns 'N' Roses or Rolling Stones any day. But recently I like a band called Bastille, or The Weeknd I'm a big fan of as well. Votes: 3

When that band started out, I was 18 years old. So that was my reality all the way up until I quit the band. And even then, you know, Guns N' Roses has a nasty way of sticking around. Votes: 3

I love Aerosmith. I love Guns N' Roses, AC/DC, anything from that era, Led Zeppelin. So my guitar style is very much like Slash or Jimmy Page. I love playing that kind of music. It's where my heart's at. Votes: 3

I don't think it's ever changed, whether its Frank Sinatra, Glenn Miller, Zeppelin, Guns n' Roses or anyone today, the reason why you get into music is because you love it, and if you're good at it, that's a plus. Votes: 3

Roses are for love. Not silly sweet-hearts' love but the love that makes you and keeps you whole, love that gets you through the worst your life'll give you and that pours out of you when you're given the best instead. Votes: 3

The only time I think I've ever gotten sick of playing Guns and Roses songs really was during - after having played them in Guns and Roses, and then in Snakepit, and then playing 'It's So Easy' and 'Brownstone' in Velvet Revolver. Votes: 3

The scary thing is that this band was founded in 1988, and back then it was Guns N' Roses, L.A. Guns and , like, 'What chick am I gonna be with tonight?' - it was that mentality, you know, around a keg. Votes: 3

The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere. I'll go to the gym and put on old albums - Guns N' Roses or old Jay-Z. Votes: 3

I was listening to music to kind of pump myself up and get psyched up, like I was listening to Iron Maiden and Misfits and Dead Kennedys, and it was like my '80s Massachusetts parking-lot heavy metal and Guns N' Roses. Votes: 3

I love 'The War Of The Roses,' especially as my husband is in it! I've often said to him it would be great to remake that with me and him in it, because then we could really get down to some serious business. Votes: 3

Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sweet thing to give a lady. But it is always roses, always red, and always perfect hothouse blooms when they can come by them. Votes: 3

Evan ran his finger across the faded leather spines. He laughed at how silly some of the names were: Paint Your Roses Red, Edelweiss and Me, World of Mushrooms and Fungi, The Toadstool Diaries, Daffodils Unseen and Exotic Plants Unleashed, to name but a few. Votes: 3

We all agree now - by 'we' I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. Votes: 3

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. Votes: 1

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening. Votes: 1

Truths and roses have thorns about them. Votes: 1

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns. Votes: 1

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Votes: 1

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours. Votes: 1

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. Votes: 1

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December. Votes: 1

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. Votes: 1

We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. Votes: 1

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine. Votes: 1

I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven. Votes: 1

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. Votes: 1

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. Votes: 1

Think of your pain like a bunch of red roses, a beautiful thorn necklace. Everyone has one. Votes: 1

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew. Votes: 1

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. Votes: 1

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. Votes: 1

People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can't. I'm always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more. Votes: 1

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. Votes: 1

There's so much to appreciate about my life every single day, and I make a big point of taking time to smell the roses and noticing how lucky I am. I never want to take that for granted. Votes: 1

I happen to be a pessimist, and maybe that's a good thing because I don't stop to smell the roses - which is not a good personal thing. I don't stop and enjoy those moments... Always on to the next and never in the moment. Votes: 1

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 that are blooming outside our windows today. Votes: 1

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses. Votes: 1

I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.' Votes: 1

My closest friend, who died not long ago, is buried near Marx's grave in Highgate cemetery, so I see the gaggle of admirers laying roses at the foot of his tombstone regularly. I have never been tempted to leave flowers there myself. Great theories, shame about the practice. Marx did many things. But inventing class was not one of them. Votes: 1

Fire beats roses again. Votes: 0

Lips, like roses dropping myrrh. Votes: 0

Gather the roses of life today. Votes: 0

Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride. Votes: 0

Sorrow, like rain makes roses and mud. Votes: 0

The gardener gives us roses, not gardeners. Votes: 0

I will send a shower of roses. Votes: 0

Everything's coming up roses - for me. Votes: 0

Some roses grow through concrete. Remember that. Votes: 0

I am thankful that thorns have roses. Votes: 0

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses. Votes: 0

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last. Votes: 0

The spiritual path is not strewn with roses. Votes: 0

I can't have white roses. They symbolize death. Votes: 0

Don't forget to stop and smell the roses. Votes: 0

The Presidency is not a bed of roses. Votes: 0

A revolution is not a bed of roses. Votes: 0

One may live without bread, not without roses. Votes: 0

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. Votes: 0

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses. Votes: 0

I love to smell like roses, literally all day! Votes: 0

Love, love, I have hung our cave with roses. Votes: 0

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk. Votes: 0

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses Votes: 0

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses Votes: 0

Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses. Votes: 0

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Votes: 0

Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses. Votes: 0

Red roses for young lovers. French beans for longstanding relationships Votes: 0

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. Votes: 0

Smiles are to people as sunshine is to the roses. Votes: 0

Her perfume was a mixture of roses and tear gas. Votes: 0

Heaven help the roses if the bombs begin to fall Votes: 0

among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn Votes: 0

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought. Votes: 0

June brings tulips, lilies, roses, Fills the children's hands with posies. Votes: 0

Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art. Votes: 0

Though one were fair as roses His beauty clouds and closes. Votes: 0

I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. Votes: 0

No time to grieve for roses when the forests are burning. Votes: 0

Here bloom red roses, dewy wet, And beds of fragrant mignonette. Votes: 0

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses too, Votes: 0

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. Votes: 0

When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn. Votes: 0

I've never really been one to stop and smell the roses. Votes: 0

It is by believing in roses that you make them bloom. Votes: 0

Had it lived long, is would have been Lilies without, roses within. Votes: 0

Honor women! they entwine and weave heavenly roses in our earthly life. Votes: 0

If you want good roses, sharpen your knife and harden your heart. Votes: 0

Men are like roses. You have to watch out for the pricks. Votes: 0

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead. Votes: 0

I like my men like I like my roses by the dozen. Votes: 0

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity. Votes: 0

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses Votes: 0

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it. Votes: 0

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. Votes: 0

Nature has thrown a veil of modest beauty over maidenhood and moss-roses. Votes: 0

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. Votes: 0

Beneath hot sun, desert roses bloomed. Under cold moon, I still refused to. Votes: 0

Glory to Women! They weave and entwine heavenly roses into an earthly life. Votes: 0

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last. Votes: 0

Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn. Votes: 0

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood. Votes: 0

Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses. Votes: 0

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. Votes: 0

I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew. Votes: 0

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies. Votes: 0

Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses. Votes: 0

There is a garden in her eyes, where roses and white lilies flow. Votes: 0

In the garden of existence, there exists two beautiful roses: Music and love. Votes: 0

Love isn't all sunsets and roses. Sometimes it's good old-fashioned stalking and surveillance. Votes: 0

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. Votes: 0

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme, Votes: 0

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie. Votes: 0

Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow"¦ And not fireworks, either Votes: 0

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. Votes: 0

Too often in my life, love has been defined as humiliation with occasional roses. Votes: 0

Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses. Votes: 0

Too often in my life, love has been defined as "humiliation with occasional roses". Votes: 0

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses" Votes: 0

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today. Votes: 0

Living with a whore--even the best whore in the world--isn't a bed of roses. Votes: 0

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine." Votes: 0

Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. Votes: 0

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine Votes: 0

A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses Votes: 0

Do not the bright June roses blow To meet thy kiss at morning hours? Votes: 0

Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell? Votes: 0

She had brillant red hair, like honey and roses and the sun all together. Votes: 0

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses. Votes: 0

For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb. Votes: 0

We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Votes: 0

I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden. Votes: 0

Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour. Votes: 0

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever. Votes: 0

You follow the same paths of thought as before. Only, they appear strewn with roses. Votes: 0

The Israelis haven't done anything to the Palestinians. They treated them with flowers and roses. Votes: 0

Someday you will name me, then gently place those burning holy roses in my hair. Votes: 0

You can't always be like 'sunshine and roses'. I like a little bit of darkness. Votes: 0

You must bring great resolve to your work. It's not all a bed of roses. Votes: 0

It was roses, roses, all the way, With myrtle mixed in my path like mad. Votes: 0

I'll go where secrets are sold Where roses unfold I'll sleep as time goes by Votes: 0

The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It's focused attention. Votes: 0

There is sweet music here that softer falls Than petals from blown roses on the grass,... Votes: 0

Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable? Votes: 0

Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses. Votes: 0

That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said. Votes: 0

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. Votes: 0

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer. Votes: 0

The mind of a poet often performs miracles-a few coarse-grained words, apprehended become bullets and roses. Votes: 0

Plant now the roses of Hope, Love, Promise, God Consciousness, and the Glory of your Soul. Votes: 0

Take the time to smell the roses. Sooner or later, you'll inhale a bee and die. Votes: 0

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. Votes: 0

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. Votes: 0

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses. Votes: 0

Goodness often blossoms like roses on very rickety trellis-work, and beauty can grow out of nonsense. Votes: 0

she is nearing forty and not so easily forgiven as when her skin bloomed like roses. Votes: 0

Every new dayOur children's joy is as fresh as roses,Even the birds chatter at dawn. Votes: 0

roses are the only flowers at garden-parties; the only flowers that everybody is certain of knowing. Votes: 0

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day. Votes: 0

Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses. Votes: 0

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! Votes: 0

Wouldn't it be nice if roses could talk? I'm sure they could tell us such lovely things. Votes: 0

No one received them [the coalition forces] with roses. They were received with bombs, shoes and bullets. Votes: 0

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. Votes: 0

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses? Votes: 0

The artist is he who can take something ordinary and wring out of it attar of roses. Votes: 0

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. Votes: 0

The purpose of pruning is to improve the quality of the roses, not to hurt the bush. Votes: 0

My roses are my jewels; the sun, moon, and stars my clocks; fruit and water my fare. Votes: 0

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses. Votes: 0

I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.' Votes: 0

Take time to smell the roses. Appreciating the little things in life really can make all the difference. Votes: 0

Women show men beauty in things beyond their ambitions. Women tell men to stop and smell the roses. Votes: 0

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses. Votes: 0

With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation. Votes: 0

She bathed with roses red, And violets blew. And all the sweetest flowres That in the forrest grew. Votes: 0

My roses are my jewels, the sun and moon my clocks, fruit and water my food and drink. Votes: 0

Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter. Votes: 0

Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses. Votes: 0

The snows and the roses of yesterday are vanished; And what is love but a rose that fades? Votes: 0

Today in my heart a vague trembling of stars and all roses are as white as my pain. Votes: 0

Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put "Emily, I love you" on the back of the bill. Votes: 0

You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns. Votes: 0

I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone looks into their family tree and expects it to come up smelling of roses. Votes: 0

I will soothe you and heal you,I will bring you roses.I too have been covered with thorns. Votes: 0

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring. Votes: 0

If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses. Votes: 0

It was June, and the world smelled of roses. The sunshine was like powdered gold over the grassy hillside. Votes: 0

I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing. Votes: 0

Like the withered roses of a once gay garland, the feelings of youth command in age a melancholy interest. Votes: 0

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too. Votes: 0

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective. Votes: 0

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor. Votes: 0

Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses. Votes: 0

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. Votes: 0

You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses. Votes: 0

People where you live grow five thousand roses in one gardenyet they don't find what they are looking for. Votes: 0

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses. Votes: 0

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. If you are generous, you will gain everything. Votes: 0

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it. Votes: 0

She plants love, and she grows roses. The fragrance of romance comes from the blossom that blooms in the heart. Votes: 0

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. Votes: 0

I'd much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something Votes: 0

Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best. Votes: 0

I feel as if I had opened a book and found roses of yesterday sweet and fragrant, between its leaves. Votes: 0

I started growing roses. I enjoyed the craft of it and that they're difficult to look after; they can provide joy. Votes: 0

Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias. Votes: 0

Fill the bowl with rosy wine, around our temples roses twine, And let us cheerfully awhile, like wine and roses, smile. Votes: 0

I want real loyalty. I want someone who will kiss my ass in Macy's window, and say it smells like roses. Votes: 0

Parting they seemed to tread upon the air, Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart Only to meet again more close. Votes: 0

Life is a garden. It is an opportunity. You can grow weeds, you can grow roses; it all depends on you. Votes: 0

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! Votes: 0

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive. Votes: 0

The roses of romance grow when you water your relationship with gratitude. Love will bloom and blossom when you recognize the awesome. Votes: 0

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Votes: 0

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ... Votes: 0

Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. Votes: 0

In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. Votes: 0

The pink rose Zayvion had given me looked a little worse for the wear, but it wasn't dead yet. Tough flowers, roses. Votes: 0

She had come into the garden expecting summer roses and had instead been caught in a bank of twisted, thorny, frostbitten vines. Votes: 0

If you love the roses, that is ordinary; if you love the weeds, that is extraordinary! Rather than being common, be extraordinary! Votes: 0

Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds! Votes: 0

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell. Votes: 0

The beautiful, passionate, ruined South, the land of magnolias and music, of roses and romance . . . living on the memory of crushing defeats Votes: 0

I assume everything I do in life is gonna be a failure, and then if it turns up roses, then I'm psyched. Votes: 0

I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left. Votes: 0

You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still. Votes: 0

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage. Votes: 0

one pierced moment whiter than the rest -turning from the tremendous lie of sleep i watch the roses of the day grow deep. Votes: 0

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :) Votes: 0

There are enough painful experiences that go along with this trip that it keeps me in reality. It ain't all gems and roses. Votes: 0

It is the month of June, The month of leaves and roses, When pleasant sights salute the eyes And pleasant scents the noses. Votes: 0

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with. Votes: 0

I question not if thrushes sing, If roses load the air; Beyond my heart I need not reach When all is summer there. Votes: 0

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats. Votes: 0

In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand. Votes: 0

The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed. Votes: 0

It was not in the winter Our loving lot was cast! It was the time of roses, We plucked them as we passed! Votes: 0

When you are passionate about life, it keeps you young. Sometimes I wake up at 4:00 am just to see how my roses look. Votes: 0

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses. Votes: 0

If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance. Votes: 0

She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose. Votes: 0

My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams. Votes: 0

When I die, I will send down a shower of roses from the heavens,I will spend my heaven by doing good on earth. Votes: 0

One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations. Votes: 0

I haven't much time to be fond of anything . . . But when I have a moment's fondness to bestow, most times . . . the roses get it. Votes: 0

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness. Votes: 0

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. Votes: 0

Praying is another way of singing.You plant in the tree the soul of lemons.You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses. Votes: 0

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns. Votes: 0

My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.' Votes: 0

I have a garden of my own, But so with roses overgrown, And lilies, that you would it guess To be a little wilderness. Votes: 0

God has given His children a love that is so great in Christ that the world can't touch it with chocolates, roses, or diamonds. Votes: 0

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight. Votes: 0

They [Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun] had their disagreements, it wasn't all sunshine and roses, but it isn't that way for any married couple. Votes: 0

If all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty and the fields would no longer be decked out with little wildflowers. Votes: 0

To feel keenly the poetry of a morning's roses, one has to have just escaped from the claws of this vulture which we call sickness. Votes: 0

If we spend our days waiting for fabulous roses we could miss the beauty and wonder of the tiny forget-me-nots that are all around us. Votes: 0

You are young, and I am older; You are hopeful, I am not- Enjoy life, ere it grow colder- Pluck the roses ere they rot. Votes: 0

Oh roses for the flush of youth, And laurel for the perfect prime; But pluck an ivy branch for me Grown old before my time. Votes: 0

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend. Votes: 0

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind. Votes: 0

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop. Votes: 0

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like that. Votes: 0

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one. Votes: 0

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses. Votes: 0

Know that diamonds and roses are as uncomfortable when they tumble from one's lips as toads and frogs: colder, too, and sharper, and they cut. Votes: 0

What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses. Votes: 0

I hide my distress, just likethe blessed birds hide themselveswhen they are preparing to die. Wine! Wine, roses, music and yourindifference to my sadness, my loved-one! Votes: 0

As a child, our house had a backyard lined with roses tended vigilantly by my mother. So the fragrance fills me with nostalgia for my youth. Votes: 0

The air was fragrant with a thousand trodden aromatic herbs, with fields of lavender, and with the brightest roses blushing in tufts all over the meadows... Votes: 0

How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple arbor. Votes: 0

Despite the weight of the world on my shoulders, the temptation to stop and smell the supernatural roses tugged on my sleeves a time or two. Votes: 0

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and the myrrh. Votes: 0

Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended. Votes: 0

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should want roses. Votes: 0

When we see a soul whose acts are all regal, graceful, and pleasant as roses, we must thank God that such things can be and are. Votes: 0

It matters not what goal you seek - its secret here reposes: you've got to dig from week to week - to get results on roses. Votes: 0

Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals. Votes: 0

Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting. Votes: 0

I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun! Votes: 0

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume. Votes: 0

They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a dream. Votes: 0

If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way. Votes: 0

I like roses best. But they bloom in all four seasons. I wonder if people who like roses best have to die four times over again. Votes: 0

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. Votes: 0

He rose like heroes, and I rose like rows of red roses. Love grows wherever you plant it, so I try to farm it wherever I go. Votes: 0

Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacationWhere trees and clouds and animals pay no notice;Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses Votes: 0

Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom, On thee shall press no ponderous tomb; But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves, the earliest of the year. Votes: 0

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once. Votes: 0

People who have never had a broken heart will never understand dead roses, Tolstoy, airport lounges, Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor, neat brandy, the moon and drizzle. Votes: 0

I sent my daughter 40 roses last November because I thought she was 40. And she laughed her head off. She is not going to be 40 until this year! Votes: 0

Maybe love isn't just a bouquet of roses once in a while. Maybe it's just sticking it out, when it's hard, when you're mad, when you're tired. Votes: 0

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting Votes: 0

If seeds in the black earth can turn into such beautiful roses, what might not the heart of man become in its long journey toward the stars? Votes: 0

Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses. Votes: 0

i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses Votes: 0

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. Votes: 0

Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power. Votes: 0

Do not sit long with a sad friend. When you go to a garden do you look at the weeds? Spend more time with the roses and jasmines. Votes: 0

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock. Votes: 0

I network like a salmon in a bear costume. Why swim upstream when the honeybee has all the flowers? Is anything more romantic than roses on a grave? Votes: 0

I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. Votes: 0

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns. Votes: 0

And red is not the color of apples or roses or the dresses that pretty girls wear in the summertime. That is not the color of red at all. Votes: 0

I'm a big believer in personal responsibility. My life wasn't always peaches and roses. Where I am today is through a belief in hard work and never saying no. Votes: 0

When I finished the trilogy of 'Pirates of the Caribbean' movies, I had a gear shift and thought, 'I need to take a moment to smell the roses.' Votes: 0

The comfortable and comforting people are those who look upon the bright side of life; gathering its roses and sunshine and making the most that happens seem the best. Votes: 0

Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. Votes: 0

The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before Votes: 0

The man who accepts the laissez-faire doctrine would allow his garden to grow wild so that roses might fight it out with the weeds and the fittest might survive. Votes: 0

Our cheer goes back to them, the valiant dead! Laurels and roses on their graves to-day, lilies and laurels over them we lay, and violets o'er each unforgotten head. Votes: 0

I'm wearing clothes in my thoughts and dreams though. What am I wearing in yours?" she asked. "Me." Conversation between Mary Rose and Harrison in Julie Garwood's FOR THE ROSES Votes: 0

It is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my poems are competing. Votes: 0

The obsessions of others are opaque to the unobsessed, and thus easy to mock. NASCAR, jazz, baseball, roses, poetry, quilts, fishing. If we're lucky, we all have at least one. Votes: 0

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze. Votes: 0

I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. Votes: 0

When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive. Votes: 0

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. Votes: 0

There was a knight came riding by In early spring, when the roads were dry; And he heard that lady sing at the noon, Two red roses across the moon. Votes: 0

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile. Votes: 0

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses- Votes: 0

A man should be more original than a bouquet of roses and a box of chocolates. Flowers die and sugar sticks to your hips like a permanent record to a criminal. Votes: 0

I should not have loved my daughter as I did. Not in this world in which nothing lives for long. You children are flies. You are roses. You multiply and die. Votes: 0

O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces. Votes: 0

A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume... Votes: 0

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek. Votes: 0

Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind doth waste their power, But by her breath her beauties to renew. Votes: 0

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure. Votes: 0

the most common type of pessimism is neither philosophical nor religious: it is the pessimism of thwarted desire. ... It is the cynical sneer of the man who, seeking roses, finds only ashes. Votes: 0

I see again my schoolroom in Vyra, the blue roses of the wallpaper, the open window.… Everything is as it should be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die. Votes: 0

Winter is on my head, but eternal spring is in my heart; I breathe at this hour the fragrance of the lilacs, the violets, and the roses, as at twenty years ago. Votes: 0

Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey. Votes: 0

Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them ... is a fairy cupid tangled in a scarf of poetry. Votes: 0

It's easy to take the time to stop and smell the roses but one must be willing to give of themselves enough to also stop to admire and understand life's weeds. Colleen Dougherty 10/2015 Votes: 0

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. Votes: 0

You can hide beneath the covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summer praying in vain, for a savior to rise from these streets. Votes: 0

Now's the time when children's noses All become as red as roses And the colour of their faces Makes me think of orchard places Where the juicy apples grow, And tomatoes in a row. Votes: 0

Philosophy is the toil which can never tire persons engaged in it. All ways are strewn with roses, and the farther you go, the more enchanting objects appear before you and invite you on. Votes: 0

What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, mouldering books. Votes: 0

A book should be a garden that fits in the hands. Word-petals of color. Stems of strength. roots of truth. Turn a page and turn the seasons. Read the sentence and enjoy the roses. Votes: 0

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. Votes: 0

They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead. Votes: 0

Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it. Votes: 0

But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb. Votes: 0

A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses. To the world, you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world. Votes: 0

When you are corn and roses and at rest I shall endure, a dense and sanguine ghost To haunt the scene where I was happiest To bend above the thing I loved the most Votes: 0

O months of blossoming, months of transfigurations, May without cloud and June stabbed to the heart, I shall not ever forget the lilacs or the roses Nor those the spring has kept folded away apart. Votes: 0

The heavy red roses smoldering in the foggy morning, blood-colored and uninhibited, made me greedy, and tempted me powerfully to steal one--I asked the prices merely so I could come as near them as possible. Votes: 0

Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions. Votes: 0

Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life Votes: 0

While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses. Votes: 0

A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses. Votes: 0

i shall imagine life is not worth dying,if (and when)roses complain their beauties are in vain but though mankind persuades itself that every weed's a rose,roses(you feel certain)will only smile Votes: 0

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them; for they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty. Votes: 0

As soon seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff Believe a woman or an epitaph Or any other thing that’s false Before you trust in critics. Votes: 0

He knows what I'm about to say--he always does. He is my best friend, my soul mate. In a perfect world, full of roses and sunshine we'd be together, but this is full of broken. Votes: 0

As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses. Votes: 0

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it. Votes: 0

The fans, the vampire groupies, love the idea of this androgynous, preternatural figure stalking the night, and craving aesthetic pleasure just as he craves blood, wearing only the best velvet clothes, and savoring red roses. Votes: 0