Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Life is funny. We all have periods of ups and downs. Of silence and discovery. And then we begin to know who we are. Like watching a rose opening. Ah, we say. And once we do, the love and the wonder truly begin. - Erin Kouvas
Once I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: "No good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. - Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't pluck a rose's petals and then ask the rose why it is sad. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Be like a rose; no matter how many thorns you encounter in life, bloom. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The echo of a red rose at the sunset, you decided to check out. - Santosh Kalwar
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom. - Chinese proverb
When the rose opens its heart, you will smell the fragrance of its soul. - Jit Sharma
Materialists deny God because they can't smell a rose with a telescope. - Adriano Bulla
But he who dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose. - Anne Brontë
But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair. - Oscar Wilde
A rose can never be a sunflower, and a sunflower can never be a rose. All flowers are beautiful in their own way, and that's like women too. - Miranda Kerr
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. - Hubert H. Humphrey
Moment by moment, in life's winter life frozeEchoing a history of blues, a milestone rose - Sandeep N Tripathi
Love is the only rose whose thorn's prick is sweet. - Matshona Dhliwayo
. . .in your light, had I learned to love, here in your beauty, could I speakknowing of this space close withinas the breath held inside a garden rose, there— there is no time. - John Daniel Thieme
It was a haunting tune, unresigned, a cry of heartache for all in the world that fell apart. As ash rose black against the brilliant sky, Fire's fiddle cried out for the dead, and for the living who stay behind and say goodbye. - Kristin Cashore
What's rose? A tragic or romantic flower? - Sindi Hysi
Preach [and live] as if Jesus was crucified yesterday, rose from the dead today, and is returning tomorrow. - Martin Luther
Why is it no one sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose. - Dorothy Parker
I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as a plant and rose to animal,I died as an animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? - Jalaluddin Rumi
No jewels, save my eyes, do I own, but I have a rose which is even softer than my rosy lips. And a quiet youth said: 'There is nothing softer than your heart.' And I lowered my gaze... - Vladimir Nabokov
You can crush a rose; all it will do is give off perfume. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You're my rose and I am the dew sticked to you who never wants to fall apart. - Himanshu Singla
Like the unfolding of a rose, allow your authentic self to grow, bloom and emerge.... shine in your radiance and In JOY all that you ARE... send your love out to all you touch... like a delicate perfume in the breeze... - Angie karan
What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare
Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle may not grow.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. - Sir Walter Scott
Life is full of joy and beauty. Look around and notice it. Notice the little butterfly, a little baby with a smile, and the white rose in the garden. Notice a drop of dew on a green leaf in the morning sun. Touch the wind, smell the rain, and feel the joy. Live your life with beauty and joy. - Debasish Mridha
One man's thorn is another man's rose. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Every rose is longing for joy and love; every rose know the language of the heart. - Debasish Mridha
Every rose has poetry in her heart and is eager to tell you when you are in love. - Debasish Mridha
The fragrance always remains in the hand that gives the rose. - Heda Bejar
The Lilly may fade and its leaves decay, The Rose from its stem may sever, The Shamrock and Thistle may pass away, But the Stars will shine forever.
Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. - Don Marquis
When you transplant a rose, transplant the reddest one. - Marty Rubin
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again. - Cora Coralina
Live. Do whatever possible to stay alive. I'll be waiting. Praying, faithful. Just live. - Jo Marie Rose, Silver Linings - Debbie Macomber
As for you Rose Tyler you gave up on me! That's rude. Is all I am rude and not ginger?" The Doctor - Grant Battersby
If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says : "I'm cheap!"
Thorns do not keep a rose from blooming, neither should obstacles keep you from success. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world. - Leo Buscaglia
The MistakeHe left his pants upon a chair:She was a widow, so she said:But he was apprehended, bare,By one who rose up from the dead. - Theodore Roethke
What is timea November leaf a child's vacillating mouth a rose a left-over, half-drunk glass of water. - İlhan Berk
Even the most stunning rose has thorns.
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn. - André Gide
A rose that blooms in the desert has the privilege of being the only flower for miles. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Looking at her always reminded me of a rose that was dripping blood. I always felt it was drawing all the life from inside. Just to look beautiful on the outside. - Akshay Vasu
That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful. - Jalaluddin Rumi
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
MEEKNESS, n. Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while. M is for Moses, Who slew the Egyptian. As sweet as a rose is The meekness of Moses. No monument shows his Post-mortem inscription, But M is for Moses Who slew the Egyptian. _The Biographical Alphabet_ - Ambrose Bierce
Live as though Christ died yesterday, rose from the grave today, and is coming back tomorrow.
The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame - Sam Selvon
through the rose glass window in their beautiful new home, you stare at the love you gave away. - Ava
You can spit on a rose, but it's still a rose. - Marty Rubin
A mother’s love is like an everlasting bed of roses, that continues to blossom. A mother’s love bears strength, comfort, healing and warmth. Her beauty is compared to a sunny day that shines upon each rose petal and inspires hope. - Ellen J. Barrier
Good to see you too, Otto." -Sydney Rose - Monet Polny The Lincoln Spy
Life is rose. Some look at the thorns ... some at the flower. - Scuro Chiaro - Photographer
Materialist deny God because they can't smell a rose with a powerful telescope. - Adriano Bulla
And as I venture into anothers pit of everlasting darkness, I'll return with a simple blackened rose. and with that rose I shall write the stories it tells. - Larul Andrews
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. - Dale Carnegie
Our Euripides the human,With his droppings of warm tears,and his touchings of things common Till they rose to meet the spheres. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot. - Salvador Dali
You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you--the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you. - Anthony Liccione
Learn from your past and shut the door behind to live in present.Our past is just like a dry rose which was once a rose with all colors of life, with sweet fragrance, with soft petal, with thorns but now it is left with only thorns which could still hurt. - ideaswar
When I am longing for love, every rose is the expression of my soul. - Debasish Mridha
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose. - Kahlil Gibran
Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose. - Cristen Rodgers
A vampire is like a Rose. They are beautiful, yet harmful. - Sweet Tart Smile Child
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets." Begin again. - Cora Coralina
In a world full of daisies dare to be a rose. - Matshona Dhliwayo
All these pricks gathering around her body, trying to reach and pierce her rose. - Anthony Liccione
A flawed rose is better than a flawless dandy lion. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Life Is, a Rose. - Ana Monnar
It’s not wasting time when you sit and look upon the roses, they remind you, every rose has a thorn! - F.J. Namini
Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn. - Vinita Kinra
His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo! - J.R.R. Tolkien
Rose is like a woman love;when love odorous but gets offended when bony.. - Jonnaville
Christ has come into the world to lay out a garden wherein, amid splendor and abundance, there should thrive the violet of humanity, the myrtle of mortification, the rose of love, the lily of virginal souls, the laurel of confessors and the palm of martyrs. - Fr James Groenings
Cornelius rose. He dried his eyes. For his spirit and will were waterproof. - Phil Bildner
You are not your past. You are the warrior that rose above it to become the example of someone who didn't survive, but thrived in creating the most beautiful last chapter of their life. - Shannon L. Alder
A man cannot be blamed for ignorance if he has never been taught. - Rose
I can't be a rose in any man's lapel. - Margaret Trudeau
The soft, fluttering cry of a barn owl rose over the churchyard. Silent men flowed out of the dark. - Parke Godwin
Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence. I know that my trunk rose from his warmth, but that's all, because my branches hardly move at all near the ground, and just wave a little in the wind. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Poetry is seeing everything when there is only one thing. It is looking at a rose but seeing the stars, moons, seas, and trees. It is a truth beyond logic, an experience beyond thought. Poetry is the Earth pausing on its axis in order to manifest itself as a rose. - Kamand Kojouri
You can see a rose both in two ways. First, through its beautiful petals. The other, through its thorns - Aries Eroles
A daisy blooming in a desert is worth more than a rose blossoming in a rainforest. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I want to be more than a rose in my husband's lapel. - Margaret Trudeau
When the door to my writing chamber gasps shut and the almost imperceptible sigh of a rose petal falls on my desk, I know that my muse is present. - Brandi L. Bates
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. - Abraham Lincoln
There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose. - Cate Tiernan
A sudden intake of breath escaped her as soon as his lips touched the backs of her fingers. His rose birthmark tingled as if awakened. - Lia Davis
Have faith in serendipity & allow yourself to be graced with rose petals on your path. Fabricate your ideas into actions with the purest intentions you can muster. - Kether Peterson
The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. - C. JoyBell C.
At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows. - William Shakespeare
If the rose is beautiful flower, it is also because it opens. (Si la rose est belle fleur, - C'est aussi parce qu'elle s'ouvre.) - Charles de Leusse
Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture. - Shannon L. Alder
A rose is not its thorns, a peach is not its fuzz and a human being is not his or her crankiness. - Lisa Kogan
I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. Your hair is wet, I told her one day, Did you take a bath? It is dew! she laughed, I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn. - Roman Payne
Love is a rose whose petals never wither. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself. - Daisaku Ikeda
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.
A rose does not answer its enemies with words, but with beauty. - Matshona Dhliwayo
A Tear drop upon your sould will bloom as the rose that is hidden deep within your soul" rdp - Rosemary Fonseca (Pearse)
California is the only state in the union where you can fall asleep under a rose bush in full bloom and freeze to death.
...Bud forth as the rose planted by the brooks of waters. Give ye a sweet odor as frankincense. Send forth flowers, as the lily...and bring forth leaves in grace, and praise with canticles, and bless the Lord in his works." —Ecclesiasticus 39:17-19 - Douai-Rheims Bible
One of the 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. - Dale Carnegie
A song she heardOf cold that gathersLike winter's tongueAmong the shadowsIt rose like blacknessIn the skyThat on volcano'sVomit riseA Stone of ruinFrom burn to chillLike black moonriseHer voice fell still... - Robert Fanney
A rose does not cease to be a flower because it lost one petal. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Like a rose bud, my heart always desires to bloom and spread the fragrance of love, beauty, and kindness of mankind. - Debasish Mridha
the Reagan years "produced one of the most dramatic redistributions of income in the nation's history....The income of families in the bottom decile fell by 10.4 percent...while the income of those in the top one percent rose by 87.1 percent."Chain Reaction, 23 - Thomas B. Edsall
Just because the rose died on the vine, doesn't mean it lied to you when it was in bloom. - Michael Clifford
A body without compassion is like the rose without the scent. - Ansul Noor
She has lived and loved! There is no folded petal, no latent dewdrop, in this perfectly developed rose! - Nathaniel Hawthorne
Love does to your soul what spring does to the rose. - Subhan Zein
How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said. - Victor Hugo
When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind. - Publius Ovidius Naso
Love is the softest rose in the soul's garden. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Love is like a rose. So beautiful to look at, yet so painful to touch. - Anonymous
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn. - Martin Amis