Rose Quotes

1911 Rose quotes by 1138 unique authors

The butterfly long loved the beautiful rose, And flirted around all day; While round him in turn with her golden caress, Soft fluttered the sun's… — Heinrich Heine
No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What… — Alexander Pope
And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.... And as to you corpse, I… — Walt Whitman
And some can pot begonias and some can bud a rose, And some are hardly fit to trust with anything that grows... — Rudyard Kipling
How I would love to be transported into a scented Elizabethan garden with herbs and honeysuckles, a knot garden and roses clambering over a simple… — Rosemary Verey
What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of… — Alan Watts
My sweet rose, my delicate flower, my lily of lilies, it is perhaps in prison that I am going to test the power of love.… — Oscar Wilde
People are timid and apologetic; they are no longer upright; they dare not say "I think," "I am," but quote some saint or sage. They… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food. — Nikola Tesla
Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
And how should a beautiful, ignorant stream of water know it heads for an early release — out across the desert, running toward the Gulf,… — Carl Sandburg
In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Oh, children, growing up to be Adventurers into sophistry, Forbear, forbear to be of those That read the rood to learn the rose. — Edna St. Vincent Millay
An educator should think of a child as a garderner thinks of a plant, as something to be made to grow by having the right… — Bertrand Russell
The electro scene is all over the clubs now: groups like Duck Sauce, Empire of the Sun, even MGMT. But I get inspiration from everywhere.… — Fergie
O, the red rose may be fair, And the lily statelier; But my shamrock, one in three Takes the very heart of me! — Katharine Tynan
Icon of Prague, the medieval bridge crossed the Vltava between Old Town and the Little Quarter. Gothic bridge towers rose on both sides, and the… — Laini Taylor
How red the rose that is the soldier — Wallace Stevens
If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance. — Epictetus
Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song; and the sun for… — Alfred North Whitehead
When the melancholy fit shall fall Sudden from heaven like a weeping cloud, That fosters the droop-headed flowers all, And hides the green hill in… — John Keats
One of the great fallacies of our time is that the Nazis rose to power because they imposed order on chaos. Precisely the opposite is… — John Fowles
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew. — William Carlos Williams
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting. — Isaac Watts
I struggled with being in the public eye, losing my anonymity when my star rose quickly in the late 90's. But I need the challenge… — Paula Cole

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