Royalty Quotes
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It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. (Quote by - George Eliot)
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. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Till the rose's lips grow pale With her sighs. (Quote by - Rose Terry Cooke)
The full-blown rose, mid dewy sweets Most perfect dies. (Quote by - Maria Brooks)
Go pretty rose, go to my fair, Go tell her all I fain would dare, Tell her of hope; tell her of spring, Tell her of all I fain would sing, Oh! were I like thee, so fair a thing. (Quote by - Michael Beverly)
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. (Quote by - Ziggy)
For if I wait, said she, Till time for roses be,-- For the moss-rose and the musk-rose, Maiden-blush and royal-dusk rose,-- What glory then for me In such a company?-- Roses plenty, roses plenty And one nightingale for twenty? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
O rose, who dares to name thee? No longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet, But pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,-- Kept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew! (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Don't ever give up. That's what I want the next generation to understand. Everything doesn't come up all roses all the time. That is the nature of this athletics game (Quote by - Tasha Danvers)
Thorns and roses grow on the same tree. (Quote by - Turkish Proverb)
Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour Is prized beyond the sculptured flower. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. (Quote by - Emma Goldman)
Thus to the Rose, the Thistle: Why art thou not of thistle-breed? Of use thou'dst, then, be truly, For asses might upon thee feed. (Quote by - Friedrich M. von Bodenstedt)
She wore a wreath of roses, The night that first we met. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses (Quote by - German Proverb)
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses: they last while they last. (Speech in Montreal 24 July 1967)
(Quote by - Charles De Gaulle)
Because it is sure of its beauty, the rose makes terrible demands on us. (Quote by - Alain Meilland)
'Twas a yellow rose, By that south window of the little house, My cousin Romney gathered with his hand On all my birthdays, for me. save the last; And then I shook the tree too rough, too rough, For roses to stay after. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Rose were sette of swete savour, With many roses that thei bere. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
Take time to smell the roses (Quote by - Proverb)
Rarity gives a charm; so early fruits and winter roses are the most prized; and coyness sets off an extravagant mistress, while the door always open tempts no suitor. (Quote by - Marcus Martial)
You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
A white rosebud for a guerdon. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
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. (Quote by - Arthur Miller)
My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame. (Quote by - Henry Constable)
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. (Quote by - Henri Matisse)
When love came first to earth, the Spring Spread rose-beds to receive him. (Quote by - Thomas Campbell )
I'll pu' the budding rose, when Phoebus peeps in view, For its like a baumy kiss o'er her sweet bonnie mou'! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense. (Quote by - Mark Overby)
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. (Quote by - Ovid)
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. (Quote by - Ernest Dowson)
One rose is enough for the dawn (Quote by - Edmond Jabes)
And thus, what can we do, Poor rose and poet too, Who both antedate our mission In an unprepared season? (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
Marriage is like life in this - that it is a field of battle and not a bed of roses. (Quote by - Robert Louis Stevenson)
Home I came at wintertide, But my silly love had died Seeking with her latest breath Roses from the arms of Death. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
There is no gathering the rose without being pricked by the thorns. (Quote by - Bidpai)
It's not always a bed of roses, but the blend of characters makes thenstrength of the team.' - A team-building tip (Quote by - Steve Redgrave)
You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns (Quote by - Benjamin Franklin)
Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they wither. (Quote by - Bible)
The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. (Quote by - Thomas Haynes Bayly)
I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose. (Quote by - Geoffrey Chaucer)
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. (Quote by - Francis Quarles)
The world is a rose, smell it and pass it to your friends. (Quote by - Persian Proverb)
Yon rose-buds in the morning-dew, How pure amang the leaves sae green! (Quote by - Robert Burns)
This guelder rose, at far too slight a beck Of the wind, will toss about her flower-apples. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
I'm not pretending to contact your dead granny and tell you that life will be a bed of roses. (Quote by - Keith Barry)
If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime. (Quote by - Swedish Proverb)
He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. (Quote by - Bidpai )
Roses fall, but the thorns remain. (Quote by - Dutch Proverb)
Someone said that God gave us memories so that we might have roses in December. (Quote by - J M Barrie)
One may live without bread, not without roses (Quote by - Jean Richepin)
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer. [Are flowers petrol powered now then?] (Quote by - Eric Johnston)
Red as a rose of Harpocrate. (Quote by - Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
More beautiful than a rose is the soul that beholds it (Quote by - Sunny Brooke)
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. [Don't forget to smell the roses, to paraphrase another famous quote] (Quote by - Ben Hogan)
