Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

John Dryden

Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.

John Lyly

A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.

Dewitt Bodeen

I quite agree with you. The sun is not kind. God should use a rose amber spot.

Lord Byron

Where the virgins are soft as the roses they twine, / And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Charles Francis Richter

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Camille Paglia

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Our Euripides the human, With his droppings of warm tears, and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

I would blossom if I were a rose.

Charlton Heston

Doing a picture with Willie Wyler is like getting the works at a Turkish bath. You damn near drown, but you come out smelling like a rose.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Billy Connolly

Roses are red, Violets are blue, I'm a schizophrenic, and so am I.

Arthur Conan Doyle

I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

Bret Michaels

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Arthur Schopenhauer

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

Edgar Allan Poe

Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste.

Edward Abbey

I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

Edward Abbey

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

Amy Lowell

Freighted with hope, Crimsoned with joy, We scatter the leaves of our opening rose.

Amy Winehouse

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.

Alex Flinn

Something with inner beauty will live forever, like the scent of a rose.

Alexander Pope

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

Alex Karpovsky

Relationships are definitely not a road paved with roses.

Dr. Seuss

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.

Christopher Moore

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

Anna Julia Cooper

With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun ...

Davy Jones

Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Anne Lamott

Whenever the world throws rose petals at you, which thrill and seduce the ego, beware.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose is without 'why'—she blooms because she blooms.

Angelus Silesius

The Rose which here on earth is now perceived by me, has blossomed thus in god from all eternity.

Angelus Silesius

The rose is without 'why'; it blooms simply because it blooms. It pays no attention to itself, nor does it ask whether anyone sees it.

Alphonse Karr

I am thankful that thorns have roses.