“A rose is a rose is a rose”
Proverb
“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
“'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone”
Thomas More
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
“One rose says more than the dozen.”
Wendy Craig
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
Chinese Proverbs
