(394 quotes found)
“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone”
Thomas More
“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
“One rose says more than the dozen.”
Wendy Craig
“A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
Proverb
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Every rose has its thorn”
“I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”
Emma Goldman
“we wouldn't ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is the concrete and these are my damaged petals, dont ask me why, thank god, and ask me how”
Tupac Shakur
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses”
Ziggy
