“ 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- Copy
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“ An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
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“ A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T. ”
- John Carey- Copy
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“ Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it, and that is all. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but would not cost half as much during the winter months. ”
- George Ade- Copy
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“ All June I bound the rose in sheaves, Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves. ”
- Robert Browning- Copy
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“ I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. ”
- Gerald Stanley Lee- Copy
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“ Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns. ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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“ You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ”
- Ziggy Marley- Copy
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“ The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. The rose is sweetest with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. ”
- Sir Walter Scott- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it. ”
- Kenfield J. Morley- Copy
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“ It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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“ Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly? ”
- Emily Bronte- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime. : Swedish Proverb ”
- Anonymous- Copy
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“ One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon — instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. ”
- Dale Carnegie- Copy
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“ You are beautiful, but you are empty. One could not die for you. To be sure, an ordinary passerby would think that my rose looked just like you — the rose that belongs to me. But in herself alone she is more important than all the hundreds of you other roses: because it is she that I have watered. ”
- Antoine de Saint Exupéry- Copy
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“ We all agree now - by we I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves. ”
- Clive Bell- Copy
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“ In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. ”
- Hubert H. Humphrey- Copy
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