(394 quotes found)
“If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap”
Delta Burke
“And she was fair as is the rose in May.”
Geoffrey Chaucer
“The Puritan through Life's sweet garden goes To pluck the thorn and cast away the rose”
Kenneth Hare
“At Christmas I no more desire a rose - Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth; But like of each thing that in season grows”
William Shakespeare
“The last rose of summer”
Proverb
“Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last”
Charles de Gaulle
“Those who don't pick roses in summer won't pick them in winter either”
German Proverb
“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
Bible
“I died a mineral, and became a plant. I died a plant and rose an animal. I died an animal and I was man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“I see a lilly on thy brow, / With anguish moist and fever dew; / And on thy cheek a fading rose / Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads / Full beautiful, a faery's child; / Her hair was long, her foot was light, / And her eyes were wild.”
John Keats
