Truths and roses have thorns about them. (Quote by - Henry David Thoreau)

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. (Quote by - George 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 that are blooming outside our windows today. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)

Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. (Quote by - Rose Terry Cooke)

The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. (Quote by - Maria Brooks)

Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would dare, Tell her of hope; tell her of spring, Tell her of all I fain would sing, Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing. (Quote by - Michael Beverly)

You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. (Quote by - Ziggy)

For if I wait, said she, Till time for roses be,-- For the moss-rose and the musk-rose, Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,-- What glory then for me In such a company?-- Roses plenty, roses plenty And one nightingale for twenty? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,-- Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Don't ever give up. That's what I want the next generation to understand. Everything doesn't come up all roses all the time. That is the nature of this athletics game (Quote by - Tasha Danvers)

Thorns and roses grow on the same tree. (Quote by - Turkish Proverb)

Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)

Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed? Of use thou'dst, then, be truly, For asses might upon thee feed. (Quote by - Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt)

She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses (Quote by - German Proverb)

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last. (Speech in Montreal 24 July 1967)

Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)

Because it is sure of its beauty, the rose makes terrible demands on us. (Quote by - Alain Meilland)

Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house, My cousin Romney gathered with his hand On all my birthdays, for me. save the last; And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough, For roses to stay after. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)

Take time to smell the roses (Quote by - Proverb)

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. (Quote by - Marcus Martial)

You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)