Sayings about Roses
The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns. ~ Turkish Proverbs
No rose without a thorn. ~ French Proverb
If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns. ~ Swedish Proverbs
Love sees roses without thorns. ~ German Proverbs
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses. ~ Traditional Proverb
If you lie upon roses when you’re young, you’ll lie upon thorns when you’re old. ~ Romanian Proverbs
The most beautiful roses grow on graves. ~ German Proverb
He who would gather roses must not fear thorns. ~ Dutch Proverbs
A girl without a friend is like the spring without roses. ~ French Proverb
The rose comes from the thorns that were born of roses. ~ Turkish Proverb
They couldn’t find any reason to criticize the roses, so they complained that they were red! ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose. ~ Turkish Proverb
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. ~ Arabian Proverb
The road to hell is strewn with roses. ~ Mexican Proverbs
It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish. ~ French Proverb
Roses fall, but the thorns remain. ~ Dutch Proverb
Quotations about Roses
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. ~ Bern Williams
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ~ Saadi
Marriage is like life – it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes
A rose only becomes beautiful and blesses others when it opens up and blooms. Its greatest tragedy is to stay in a tight-closed bud, never fulfilling its potential. ~ Author Unknown
Keep not your roses for my dead, cold brow. The way is lonely, let me feel them now. ~ Arabella Smith
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ~ Ovid Quotes
God gave us memory that we might have roses in December. ~ James M. Barrie
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. ~ Mark Overby
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. ~ Ben Hogan
A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past. ~ Fidel Castro
One rose says more than the dozen. ~ Wendy Craig
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. ~ Robert Herrick
I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~ Emma Goldman Quotes
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted. ~ Henri Matisse
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play. ~ Johnny Mercer
I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It’s all how you look at it. ~ Kenfield J. Morley
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. ~ Pilpay
Be both the gardener and the rose. ~ Author Unknown
What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet. ~ William Shakespeare Quotes
Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow, gather the roses of life today. ~ Pierre de Ronsard
‘Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them. ~ Edward Moore
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ~ George Eliot Quotes
A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world. ~ Leo Buscaglia
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses. ~ Ellen Key
Avoid being impatient. Remember time brings roses. ~ Author Unknown
Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan