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
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Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
Dutch Proverb
Men are still men. When they call on the phone, they just want something big and beautiful. And they want red roses.
Arline Huckabay
The thing that I consider most important about my work is this: I told it like it is. I told my readers that the bad guys have a little of good in them, and the good guys have a lot of bad in them, and that you can't depend on anything much; nothing is always going to turn out roses.
Carl Barks
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
Whenever Mr. Johnson sent out flowers of condolence, he asked for red roses more often than not.
Norman Williams
Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.
Tina Charles
We believe Mr. Campbell is simply ready to take some time out to smell the roses before accepting any new challenges.
David Newman
Roses are red, and how do you do? Drink four of these, and Woo woo woo woo!
Curly Howard
Run For the Roses.
Dan Fogelberg
You know how they say stop and smell the roses? Well, there is a lot of truth to that.
Dennis Hall
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Roses are reddish/ Violets are bluish/ If it weren't for Christmas/ We'd all be Jewish.
Benny Hill
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, / Like a child at play.
Johnny Mercer
Roses help people see themselves more clearly.
Melba Martinez
We go early to hear the reading of names and listen for Daddy's name. Later we descend on a ramp to water ponds filled with thousands of roses. We always bring our own flowers and a note to our dad.
Jill Abbott
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 Exupery
From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks, Ten thousand little loves and graces spring To revel in the roses.
Nicholas Rowe
(i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands.
E e cummings
Roses are my favorite flower. I developed a passion for them. And in my own garden, I didn't want to be fussing with just roses. I enjoyed other plants as well.
Stephen Scanniello
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We're going to go home and plant more roses now. This is all just beautiful.
Barbara King
It's starting to sink in, but we still can't believe we got the gold and made ice-skating history. There was an enormous bouquet of more than 200 roses, and now my arm hurts.
Albena Denkova
We are not to comprehend;the secret of roses, but maybeswimming in the incantation of roses.Or may be looking forthe song of truthbetween the morning glory,and the century.
Sohrab Sepehri
Some have wives or girlfriends that say 'Don't send me roses,' though they specify they want at least one rose.
Lori Glass
It wasn't a good location for roses. A lot of them had gotten sick, so we transplanted them to Rose Hill Cemetery.
Mike Anthony
A lot of people have a misconception that roses won't last for more than a day or two; but if taken care of correctly, roses should last a week to two weeks. We are more than happy to inform our customers on proper flower care.
Jamie Whitmore
I'm not showing any black, ... All of the colors are orange, you know, roses. There's a beautiful shade of aqua this year, and a really nice lilac, a deep lilac.
Nicole Miller
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 don't think that Mr. Sharon is coming to plant roses all around the road between here and Jerusalem. He is going to come with more aggression, with more atrocities against our people.
Marwan Kanafani
Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
People just show up at the front door and leave teddy bears, bouquets, roses. That started the day of the fire.
Patti Hagan
How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.
Vince Young
People like to use the shrub roses for hedges. The kids won't drive through them with their bikes, and you can just let them grow.
Dwight Oelke
It's possible roses might have been cut even earlier than four to seven days previous, especially on Valentine's Day -- the number-one holiday for florists -- when there is such a big market all at once. So, it's good to get them back into water as soon as possible.
Kathleen Brown
When people come in and take a breath, it is so captivating. It basically tells people to stop and smell the roses.
Andrea Walker
Costing the Guns N' Roses partnership millions of dollars to date.
Guns N' Roses
She wore a wreath of roses, / The night that first we met.
Thomas Haynes Bayly
I won't say everything is roses.
John Mohns
I have always felt that although someone may defeat me, and I strike out in a ball game, the pitcher on the particular day was the best player. But I know when I see him again, I'm going to be ready for his curve ball. Failure is a part of success. There is no such thing as a bed of roses all your life. But failure will never stand in the way of success if you learn from it.
Hank Aaron
[And Fall Out Boy isn't the notoriously feuding Guns N' Roses.] We're best friends, ... And that's what's most important. They know a healthy Pete is good for Fall Out Boy.
Pete Wentz
To coincide with Valentine's Day we were making a statement demanding roses and the dignity they stand for and bread in the form of affordable food for everyone.
Jenni Williams
The red roses are for love. The yellow roses are for hope -- hope for those that aren't returned yet, those that are missing in Vietnam, that they someday will be returned.
Tony Cordero
If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.
Robert Stack
I guess we see more elderly people coming in and buying the roses. The older population definitely loves it for a hobby.
Dwight Oelke
That's how he's got these beautiful roses that win contests.
Damon Essert
I bought 50 roses. That's a lot of roses. They did a wonderful job on that.
Doyle Smith
I feel more of a kindred bond with the men people compare me to than the women. If someone says Bon Scott or Guns N' Roses, I'll take that any day over Peaches.
Chantal Claret
They have it in their minds that their wives or girlfriends get red roses.
Arline Huckabay
Everything's Coming Up Roses.
Gypsy Rose Lee
And we're gonna put the pen in the box, and she loved lavender roses so we can put a rose petal in here.
Tammy Kubo
You'd see roses blooming in the rose garden, but down two steps everything was gone. There was $1 million worth of damage, but it could have been much worse.
Bill Noble
Every year, since 1951, we've been raising money for muscular dystrophy research. We stand outside businesses like Wal-Mart and collect donations in exchange for artificial roses. One hundred percent of what we collect is given to the cause. We average about $2,500 annually.
Rodger Fowler
If the power goes out, business stops ... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
Eric Johnston
I've always imagined having roses at my wedding. It's just the way I've pictured it.
Elinor Howard
The fairest things have fleetest end,/ Their scent survives their close:/ But the rose's scent is bitterness/ To him that loved the rose!
Edward Thomas
It matters not what goal you seek - Its secret here reposes: You've got to dig from week to week - To get Results or Roses.
Edgar A. Guest
I think we're going to see a rate increase at the end of March and another one at the end of May to bring us up to 5 percent. Then I think the Federal Reserve will step back for a while to smell the roses.
Eugenio Aleman
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
Ernest Dowson
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