Quotes with roses

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  • Fidel Castro A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.
    Fidel Castro
    Cuban revolutionary and politician (1926 - 2016)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Carl Sandburg And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release - out across the desert, running toward the Gulf, below sea level, to murmur its lullaby, and see the Imperial Valley rise out of burning sand with cotton blossoms, wheat, watermelons, roses, how should it know?
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Ben Hogan As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Arthur Miller 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
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Geoffrey Chaucer Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    British poet (1340 - 1400)
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  • George F. Will It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, ''No wise man ever wished to be younger.''
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • George Eliot It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Dale Carnegie 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
    American writer and lecturer (1888 - 1955)
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  • Charles III Only the other day I was inquiring of an entire bed of old-fashioned roses, forced to listen to my ramblings on the meaning of the universe as I sat cross-legged in the lotus position in front of them.
    Charles III
    King of the United Kingdom since 2022 (1948 - )
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  • Carl Honore Out of the Slow Food movement has grown something called the Slow Cities movement, which has started in Italy but has spread right across Europe and beyond. And in this, towns begin to rethink how they organize the urban landscape so that people are encouraged to slow down and smell the roses and connect with one another.
    Carl Honore
    Canadian journalist (1967 - )
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Oscar Levant Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
    Oscar Levant
    American Pianist, Actor (1906 - 1972)
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  • Benny Hill Roses are reddish Violets are bluish If it weren't for Christmas We'd all be Jewish.
    Benny Hill
    English comedian, actor and singer (1924 - 1992)
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  • Alphonse Karr Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Ovid The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • John Greenleaf Whittier They tell me, Lucy, thou art dead, that all of thee we loved and cherished has with thy summer roses perished; and left, as its young beauty fled, an ashen memory in its stead.
    John Greenleaf Whittier
    American poet and writer (1807 - 1892)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Treaties are like roses and young girls - they last while they last
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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