Rose Quotes - page 4

Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate; And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road; But not the Master-knot of Human Fate. (Omar Khayyám)
The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white it stays forever Their red it never dies: But Phillida, my Phillida! Her color comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,- It wavers to a rose. View quote
Henry Austin Dobson
In me the tiger sniffs the rose. View quote
Siegfried Sassoon
The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose. View quote
Francis Thompson
The best way to killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud. View quote
José Saramago
The force that makes the winter grow Its feathered hexagons of snow, and drives the bee to match at home Their calculated honeycomb, Is abacus and rose combined.An icy sweetness fills my mind, A sense that under thing and wing Lies, taut yet living, coiled, the spring. View quote
Jacob Bronowski
We were all born of flesh, in a flare of pain. We do not remember the red roots whence we rose, but we know that we rose and walked, that after a while we shall lie down again. View quote
Conrad Aiken
The modest Rose puts forth a thorn, The humble sheep a threat'ning horn: While the Lily white shall in love delight, Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright. View quote
William Blake
A stranger's rose is but a thorn. View quote
Isaac Leib Peretz
A soft Sea washed around the House A Sea of Summer Air And rose and fell the magic Planks That sailed without a care -- For Captain was the Butterfly For Helmsman was the Bee And an entire universe For the delighted crew. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The question of common sense is always "What is it good for?"-a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage. (James Russell Lowell)
How easy it is for men to be swollen with admiration of their own strength and glory, and to be lifted up so high as to lose sight both of the ground whence they rose, and the hand that advanced them. View quote
Joseph Hall
The fundamental principles of our religion are the testimony of the Apostles and Prophets, concerning Jesus Christ, that He died, was buried, and rose again the third day, and ascended into heaven; and all other things which pertain to our religion are only appendages to it. View quote
Joseph Smith
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
The roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones they are for what they are they exist with God today. There is no time to them. There is simply the rose. It is perfect in every moment of its existence. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose. View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
A new danger now beset him [Grotius], the danger of becoming simply a venal pleader, a creature who grinds out arguments on this or that side, for this or that client: a mere legal beast of prey. Fortunately for himself and for the world he took a higher view of his life-work: his determination clearly was to make himself a thoroughly equipped jurist, and then, as he rose more and more in his profession, to use his powers for the good of his country and of mankind. View quote
Andrew Dickson White
Before man's fall the rose was born, St. Ambrose says, without the thorn; But for man's fault then was the thorn Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
So, timely you came, and well you chose, You came when most needed, my winter rose. From the snow I pluck you, and fondly press Your leaves 'twixt the leaves of my leaflessness. View quote
Alfred Austin
When the rest of the congregation rose at the entrance of the choir he kept his seat. He argued that rising to one's feet at such a time tended to make the choir-boys conceited. View quote
Isa Bowman
we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how. (Tupac Shakur)
A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose. View quote
Larry McMurtry
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God. View quote
Theodore Parker
The idiots always rose to the top and made policy. It explained a lot of things. View quote
Jack McDevitt
Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore