"A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world." - Leo Buscaglia
"I
once 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
"What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." - William Shakespeare
"Ever
since the beginning of rock and roll, there's been an Axl Rose. And
it's just boring. It's totally boring to me." - Kurt Cobain
"But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
"You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"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
"Groups that rose from poverty to prosperity
seldom did so by having their own racial or ethnic leaders to follow." -
Thomas Sowell
"A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true." - Ray Evans
"Beauty
is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be
said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and
that is all." - W. Somerset Maugham
"Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem." - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
"The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together." - Saadi
"Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis
"Can
anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses
in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume." - Arthur
Miller
"If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears." - Isaac Hayes
"She
had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so
different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared,
has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring." -Marquis de Sade
"I
love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through
professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved
wearing bright colors and being who I am." - Madeleine Albright
"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo." - Don Marquis
"A
rose is the visible result of an infinitude of complicated goings on in
the bosom of the earth and in the air above, and similarly a work of
art is the product of strange activities in the human mind." - Clive
Bell
"You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I
love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday,
he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and
candles all over the room." - Jennifer Lopez
"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." - George William Curtis
"There
is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a
rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses
that were ever painted." - Henri Matisse
"Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet." - Katharine Lee Bates
"We have chased away the clouds, the sky is all rose." - Francois Hollande
"When
the rose and the cross are united the alchemical marriage is complete
and the drama ends. Then we wake from history and enter eternity." -
Robert Anton Wilson
"I want to encourage women to embrace their
own uniqueness. Because just like a rose is beautiful, so is a
sunflower, so is a peony. I mean, all flowers are beautiful in their own
way, and that's like women too." - Miranda Kerr
"Ideas rose in clouds; I felt them collide until pairs interlocked, so to speak, making a stable combination." - Henri Poincare
"The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms." - Angelus Silesius
"Our eyes reflect light. Better that the lips are more like a rose petal." - Olivier Theyskens
"Love and a red rose can't be hid." - Thomas Holcroft
"One rose says more than the dozen." - Wendy Craig
"Whenever the occasion arose, he rose to the occasion." - Jonathan Brown
