My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
Henry Constable

One may live without bread, not without roses.
Jean Richepin

One of the most 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

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.
Tina Charles

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Oscar Levant

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
Robert Williams Buchanan

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
George Herbert

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
Jerry Pournelle

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
Rose Schneiderman

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

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Ernest Dowson

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.
Susan B. Anthony

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Edward Moore

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle

Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.
Charles de Gaulle

Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Henry David Thoreau

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
Stephen Gardiner

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
Clive Bell