Famous Quotes & Sayings

Geoffrey Chaucer

I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Certes, they been lye to hounds, for an hound when he cometh by the roses, or by other bushes, though he may nat pisse, yet wole he heve up his leg and make a countenance to pisse.

Christina Rossetti

What is pink? A rose is pink By the fountain's brink.

Christina Rossetti

The rose saith in the dewy morn, I am most fair; Yet all my loveliness is born Upon a thorn.

Jean Cocteau

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

Fernando Pessoa

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Vince Young

Thanks for coming. But we're going to the Rose Bowl.

Erma Bombeck

If I had my life to live over I would have burned the pink candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.

Jane Porter

However you disguise slavery, it is slavery still. Its chains, though wreathed with roses, not only fasten on the body but rivet on the mind.

Gus Van Sant

Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.

Jay Chiat

Charlie Rose is the ultimate ad.

Kristin Scott Thomas

People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.

Kim Harrison

Rose to Rachel: You cry you get angry then you do something about it.

Ilka Chase

I always felt that the boiled potato, not the tudor rose, should be the national emblem.

Jerry Coleman

Pete Rose has three thousand hits and three thousand fourteen overall.

Francis Thompson

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Vince Young

How sweet this is. The roses smell so pretty. Oh, so pretty.

James Frey

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

J. R. R. Tolkien

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!

Isaac Hayes

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

Julia Quinn

His brows rose. “And how is it that you have come to be such an expert on scrapes and bruises?” “I’m a governess,” she said. Because really, that ought to be explanation enough.

Juan Williams

Teddy Kennedy rose to become a liberal lion by collaborating with Republicans.

Jodi Picoult

What could it be like to find out, in a matter of minutes, that the person you believed the sun rose and set on was not the person you'd thought?

John Grisham

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

Paul Celan

A nothing we were, are, shall remain, flowering: the nothing--, the no one's rose.

Louis Kronenberger

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

Marquis de Sade

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Nicki Minaj

Now get that Rose, get that get that Rose A little Hennessy & Louis the Thirteenth

Ovid

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Margery Allingham

She rose and followed her bust from the room.

Gertrude Stein

When I said. A rose is a rose is a rose. And then later made that into a ring I made poetry and what did I do I caressed completely caressed and addressed a noun.

Friedrich Nietzsche

...throw roses into the abyss and say: 'here is my thanks to the monster who didn't succeed in swallowing me alive.

Jose Saramago

... the best way of killing a rose is to force it open when it is still only the promise of a bud.