Quotes with rose-garden

Quotes 121 till 132 of 132.

  • William Shakespeare What's in a name? That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Carlos Santana When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower of another garden, the spiritual garden.
    Carlos Santana
    Mexican and American guitarist (1947 - )
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  • Rose Tremain When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.
    Rose Tremain
    English author, chancellor of the University of East Anglia (1943 - )
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  • Bill Mauldin While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Dorothy Parker Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • A. E. Housman With rue my heart is laden
    For golden friends I had,
    For many a rose-lipt maiden
    And many a lightfoot lad.

    By brooks too broad for leaping
    The lightfoot boys are laid;
    The rose-lipt girls are sleeping
    In fields where roses fade.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Don Marquis Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • Thomas à Kempis You are a man, not God; you are human, not an angel. How can you expect to remain always in a constant state of virtue, when this was not possible even for an angel of Heaven, nor for the first man in the Garden?
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Rose Macaulay You should always believe all you read in newspapers, as this makes them more interesting.
    Rose Macaulay
    English writer (1881 - 1958)
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  • Thomas Fuller A good garden may have some weeds.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Helen Keller Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but the smell makes the garden a place of joy.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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