Women have no beginning only continual flows. Though rivers flow women are not rivers. Women are not roses they are not oceans or stars. I would like to tell her this but I think she already knows. – Ana Castillo Women Are Not Roses
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. – H. L. Mencken
I would say, ‘Go ask any couple that’s been married for 30, 40, 50 years… It hasn’t always been roses.’ – Jason Aldean
You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses. – Alphonse Karr Letters written from my Garden
Don’t strew me with roses after I’m dead. When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! – Thomas F. Healey Give Me My Roses Now
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says, ‘For the woman I love’ and the second, ‘For my best friend.’ – Unknown
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
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses. – Jean Cocteau
I hate roses. Don’t you? It’s all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick. – Cy Twombly
I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden. – Jaclyn Smith
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor’s office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey – ‘Here’s the lady who brought the roses’ vs. ‘Here’s the lung cancer.’ – Bernie Siegel
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. – Arthur Miller
We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory. – Bernard Williams
People tell me all the time I should stop and smell the roses, but I can’t. I’m always thinking of what I can do to make what I have better and do more. – Eddie Trunk
When I was a little girl, my grandfather, who I was very close to, used to grow yellow roses. He had yellow roses growing all the way up his drive. – Natalie Dormer
