Everything's Coming Up Roses




Live now, believe me, wait not till tomorrow;
Gather the roses of life today.--Pierre de Ronsard



You can complain because roses have thorns,
Or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. --Ziggy



The fragrance always stays
In the hand that gives the rose. --Hada Bejar



Roses do comfort the heart. --William Langham



There is simply the rose;
It is perfect in every moment of its existence. --Ralph Waldo Emerson



Someone said that God gave us memory
So that we might have roses in December. --Sir J.M. Barrie



Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose. --Gertrude Stein



The rose has thorns
Only for those who would pluck it. --Chinese proverb



Gather the Rose of love, whilst yet is time. --Edmund Spenser



When Love came first to Earth,
The Spring spread rose-beds to receive him. --Thomas Campbell



What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. --William Shakespeare



What would the rose with all her pride be worth,
Were there no sun to call her brightness forth? --Thomas Moore



It is by believing in roses
That one brings them to bloom. --French proverb