Roses Quotes
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June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.
Sara Coleridge
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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
Oscar Wilde
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The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?
Antonio Machado
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My virgin sense of sound was steeped In the music of young streams; And roses through the casement peeped, And scented all my dreams.
Alfred Austin
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I would say, 'Go ask any couple that's been married for 30, 40, 50 years... It hasn't always been roses.'
Jason Aldean
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Because beautiful things never last. Not roses nor snow… And not fireworks, either.
Jennifer Donnelly
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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.
Lord Byron
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I like my men like I like my roses . . . by the dozen.
Barbara La Marr
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I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.
Rumi
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Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.
John Milton
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Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
Lecrae
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The surest way to wake up and smell the roses every day is to go to sleep face down in the flower bed.
Argus Hamilton