Quotes and Sayings about Roses
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I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. – Emma Goldman
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A rose by any other name would still be a rose.
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Don’t grumble that roses have thorns…
be thankful that thorns have roses !!
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It matters not what goal you seek
Its secret here reposes:
You’ve got to dig from week to week
To get Results or Roses.
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Even the most tempting rose has thorns.
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When love came first to earth, the Spring
Spread rose-beds to receive him.
– Thomas Campbell,
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God has given us our memories
that we might have roses in December.
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He who wants a rose must respect the thorn.
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I’d rather have roses on my table
than diamonds around my neck.
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. Abraham Lincoln
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You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns ~ Benjamin Franklin
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If you always take time to stop and smell the roses,
eventually, you’ll inhale a bee.
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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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It is believing in roses that one brings them to bloom.
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Love is like a bed of roses, there are many thorns.
The path to happiness lies in learning
to avoid the thorns while enjoying the roses.
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She wore a wreath of roses,
The night that first we met.
– Thos. Haynes Bayly
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May your life be full and complete….like the blooming of a rose.
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Roses whisper what words cannot say.
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The days of wine and roses.
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The perfume of a summer rose
lingers in the folds of angel’s wings.
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Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
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The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends. – Persian Proverb