A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses.
I know patients who bring a dozen roses to the doctor's office. And, boy, the next visit, nobody forgets that. You come in and hey - 'Here's the lady who brought the roses' vs. 'Here's the lung cancer. '
If you find yourself born in Barnsley and then set your sights on being Virginia Woolf it is not going to be roses all the way.
I will send a shower of roses.
In the season of white wild roses We two went hand in hand: But now in the ruddy autumn Together already we stand.
Aspirin is so good for roses, brandy for sweet peas, and a squeeze of lemon-juice for the fleshy flowers, like begonias.
One may live without bread, not without roses.
I would play with Guns n' Roses anytime.
There were crimson roses on the bench; they looked like splashes of blood.
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
And still I look for the men who will dare to be roses of England wild roses of England men who are wild roses of England with metal thorns, beware! but still more brave and still more rare the courage of rosiness in a cabbage world fragrance of roses in a stale stink of lies rose-leaves to bewilder the clever fools and rose-briars to strangle the machine.
If you're in an urban city like New York, the corner markets are fantastic sources for tulips and roses.
Heap not on this mound roses that she loved so well; why bewilder her with roses that she cannot see or smell.
Plant now the roses of Hope, Love, Promise, God Consciousness, and the Glory of your Soul.
A little bit of fragrance always clings to the hands that gives you roses
I'm not sure there are enough white roses in the world to make me forget Richard. " I held up my hand before she could interrupt. "But I'm not sure there are enough cozy afternoons in all eternity to make me forget Jean-Claude.
Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
Public feeling now is apt to side with the persecuted, and our modern martyr is full as likely to be smothered with roses as with coals.
Praying is another way of singing. You plant in the tree the soul of lemons. You plant in the gardens the spirit of roses.
In marriage, if you're a guy, learn two phrases. One is "yes, dear" and the other is "honey, you're right. " Be patient. Be good friends first. And stick together. You gotta work at it. It's not all a honeymoon, it's not all flowers and roses, but if you're friends and partners and committed, you'll be okay. And everybody's got advice for you - don't listen.