Roses Quotes
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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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And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.
Marie Antoinette
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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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Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses.
Oscar Wilde
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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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When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
Rumi
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If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance.
Epictetus
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June brings tulips, lilies, roses,
Fills the children's hands with posies.
Sara Coleridge
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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.
John Ruskin
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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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Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
Lecrae
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Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
Syd Barrett
Pink Floyd
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Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.
William Shakespeare
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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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Few women see power as an end in itself. The point of power is the freedom to cultivate roses.
Erica Jong
