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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

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

Sometimes they are just a gesture of a bush, but still able to survive. These are the roses that I want to preserve.

Judy Dean

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

We are just the current caretakers of these roses. It is important that future generations be able to see them as well.

Judy Dean

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

He didn't wear his fame because of his father on his sleeve, ... He didn't act like a big shot, like, 'I'm Pete Rose's son.' He's a good kid.

Jeff Ruby

If it is a big office and everybody gets a vase of red roses, but somebody gets a vase of hot pink and orange roses or green roses, it makes the other women green with envy. Flowers say a lot. They don't last forever, but the excitement sticks with them.

Lisa Dear

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

One guy said, 'I have a hard time buying my wife roses when it's her money.' .

Karl Graf

It's funny how everything was Roses when we held on to our Guns.

Axel Rose

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

Contrary to allegations in the lawsuit, Axl has never denied that others made substantial contributions towards the success of Guns N' Roses, but there is little doubt as to who was the creative catalyst behind the group's success.

Axl Rose

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

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Ellen Key

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