Quotes 41 till 60 of 83.
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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.
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In spring's own country, where the gardens blow,
You faded, tender rose! For hours now past,
Like butterflies departing, on you're cast
The worms of memories to work you woe.Source: Crimean Sonnets The Grave of the Countess Potocki -
It may be that which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,' but I should be loath to see a rose on a maiden's breast substituted by a flower, however beautiful and fragrant it might be, that is went by the name of the skunk lily.
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It wasn't my dream to make music. It was just something I ended up doing, and no one said stop.
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It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.
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Life is a great and noble game between the citizen and the government.
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Life should be embraced like a lover.
Source: The Swimming Pool Season (2011) 79 -
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.
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My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
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My love is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.
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Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
Source: (2010) -
Not a red rose or a satin heart.
I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper.
It promises light
like the careful undressing of love... I am trying to be truthful.Source: Valentine, from Mean Time (1993) -
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.
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One should, I think, always give children money, for they will spend it for themselves far more profitably than we can ever spend it for them.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Source: Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million (2014) 42 -
Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and fruits spring up and flourish in the desert abode of thorns and briars.
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Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.
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