Half the world I wandered through, Seeking where such flowers grew. Half the world unto my quest Answered me with laugh and jest.
Home I came at wintertide,
But my silly love had died
Seeking with her latest breath
Roses from the arms of Death.
View quotes by Rudyard Kipling
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. [Don't forget to smell the roses, to paraphrase another famous quote]
View quotes by Ben Hogan
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
View quotes by Ziggy
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
View quotes by Emma Goldman
Someone said that God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December.
View quotes by J M Barrie
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
View quotes by Ernest Dowson
Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle and not a bed of roses.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
View quotes by Francis Quarles
I'm not pretending to contact your dead granny and tell you that life will be a bed of roses.
View quotes by Keith Barry
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last. (Speech in Montreal 24 July 1967)
View quotes by Charles De Gaulle
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.
View quotes by Henry Constable
And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies.
View quotes by Christopher Marlowe
It was not in the winter
Our loving lot was cast:
It was the time of roses
We pluck'd them as we pass'd
View quotes by Thomas Hood
Life is short, and time is swift;
Roses fade, and shadows shift
View quotes by Ebenezer Elliott
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.
View quotes by Arthur Miller
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?]
View quotes by Eric Johnston
Don't ever give up. That's what I want the next generation to understand. Everything doesn't come up all roses all the time. That is the nature of this athletics game
View quotes by Tasha Danvers
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.
View quotes by Marcus Martial
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.
View quotes by Dale Carnegie
'It's not always a bed of roses, but the blend of characters makes the
strength of the team.' - A team-building tip
View quotes by Steve Redgrave
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