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

Shakespeare

 

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.

Wm Cullen Bryant

 

Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.

Gertrude Stein

 

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Lytton

 

I am not the rose, but I have lived with her.
Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu avec elle.

Henri Benjamin Constant

 

There is no gathering the rose
without being priced by the thorns.

Bidpai

 

In the darkness,
who would answer for the color of a rose.

Nathalia Crane

 

An idealist is one who,
on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage,
concludes that it will also make better soup."

H. L. Mencken (1880-1956):

 

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 Guest

 

'Tis the last rose of summer,
Left blooming alone;
All her lovely companions
are faded and gone.

Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

 

Bring me all your flowers now
I would rather have a single rose
from the garden of a friend,
than the choicest of flowers,
when my stay on earth must end.

R.D. Richards

 

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.

Robert Herrick 1591-1674

 

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare,
the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears.
Things are not only what they are.
They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Hubert H. Humphrey (1911-78)

 

A thorn defends the rose,
harming only those who would steal the blossom.

Chinese proverb

 

Love is much like a wild rose,
beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.

Mark A. Overby:

 

God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December.
J. M. Barrie, British Playwright

 

You can complain because roses have thorns,
or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.

Ziggy

 

Roses are red, violets are blue;
I'm schizophrenic and so am I.

Author(s) :) Unknown

 

Love is like a Rose, the joy of all the earth.
Christina Rosetti

 

You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
Thomas Moore

 

If you want to say it with flowers,
a single rose says : "I'm cheap!
Delta Burke