Sweet spring, full of sweet days
and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.
- George Herbert
I'd rather have roses on my table
than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman
He who would have beautiful Roses
in his garden must have beautiful
Roses in his hear.
- Dean Hole
The rose was awake all night
for your sake,
Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,
Live now, believe me, wait not
til tomorrow.
Gather the roses of life today.
- Pierre de Ronsard
Roses have thorns, and silver
fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both
moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives
in sweetest bud.
All men make faults.
- William Shakespeare
Won't you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.
- Rose Henniker Heston
Someone said that God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December.
- William Shakespeare