(345 quotes found)
“Roses grow where a teacher hits.”
Turkish Proverb
“Treaties are like roses and young girls -- they last while they last”
Charles de Gaulle
“The last rose of summer”
Proverb
“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
“O Rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm, That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy; And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy”
William Blake
“I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.”
Bible
“A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.”
William Carlos Williams
“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
“Parting they seemed to tread upon the air,/ Twin roses by the zephyr blown apart / Only to meet again more close.”
John Keats
“Roses fall, but the thorns remain.”
Dutch Proverb
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