You smell like the roses. I smell like the thorns.

I will no longer wound myself with the thoughts and questions that have surrounded me like thorns: that is a penance You do not…

— Thomas Merton

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into petals. The trick is not letting…

— C. JoyBell C

“Who should be like thorns? The one who grows flowers amidst predators!”

— SIYA SEJAL

To higher or lower ends, they [the majority of mankind] move too often with something of a sad countenance, with hurried and ignoble gait,…

— Walter Pater

“Some women are like roses Ohh how beautiful you blossom Yet have too many thorns to ever be held.”

— Jasmine Mans

Smell the roses. Smell the coffee. Whatever it is that makes you happy.

— Rita Moreno

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the…

— Rudolf Otto

Give people their roses while they still can smell them...

— Kanye West

My girlfriend always told me, 'Send roses while they can still smell them, tell people you love them while they can still hear.'

— Manti Te'o

Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

“When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.”

— Rumi

“The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.”

— Matshona Dhliwayo

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

— Olga Broumas

If life is so great..Why do roses have thorns?

— Anonymous