Rose is a rose is a rose. This page is a collection of proverbs and quotes about roses.
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"You are my garden of beautiful roses,Dorothy L. Sayers
My own rose, my one rose, that's you!"
Source: Whose Body?
A rose has thorns, a cat has claws; certainly both are worth the risk.
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
But he, that dares not grasp the thornAnne Brontë
Should never crave the rose.
Source: The narrow way
Every rose has its thorn.Every good thing has an unpleasant side.
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
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
I see trees of green, red roses tooLouis Armstrong
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
Source: Lyrics: What a Wonderful World
It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish.
My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.Robert Burns
Our highest assurance of the goodness of Providence seems to me to rest in the flowers. All other things, our powers our desires, our food, are all really necessary for our existence in the first instance. But this rose is an extra. Its smell and its color are an embellishment of life, not a condition of it.Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Source: The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes
The rose has its thorn, the peach its worm.
The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it.
The rose of the old year withers away as the new bud begins to bloom.Terri Guillemets
What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.William Shakespeare
