Gather the roses of life today.

Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow; Gather the roses of life today.

— Pierre de Ronsard

There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life.

— Hank Aaron

There are people who plant thorns in their garden expecting to gather roses.

— Vikrant Parsai

...If you are too much afraid of thorns you will miss the roses too because they are there together...and what is life without a…

— OSHO

Let your bookcases and your shelves be your gardens and your pleasure-grounds. Pluck the fruit that grows therein, gather the roses, the spices, and…

— Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon

Alas! to seize the moment When the heart inclines to heart, And press a suit with passion, Is not a woman's part. If man…

— William C. Bryant

If I had a rose for every time I think about you, I'd be picking roses for a life time.

— Elizabeth Ward

I was expecting it to be cynical because I'm like that myself. I wouldn't want it to be all roses because life isn't like…

— Amy Winehouse

But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity.

— Louisa May Alcott

It's there. The white rose among the dried flowers in the vase. Shriveled and fragile, but holding on to that unnatural perfection cultivated in…

— Suzanne Collins

There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.

— Dorothy L. Sayers

Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too!

— Matthew Arnold

Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.

— James Montgomery

The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should…

— Henry Miller