Sweet spring, full of sweet days
and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.
- George Herbert

I'd rather have roses on my table
than diamonds on my neck.
- Emma Goldman

He who would have beautiful Roses
in his garden must have beautiful
Roses in his hear.
- Dean Hole

The rose was awake all night
for your sake,
Knowing your promis to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,

Live now, believe me, wait not
til tomorrow.
Gather the roses of life today.

Pierre de Ronsard

Roses have thorns, and silver
fountains mud;
Clouds and eclipses stain both
moon and sun,
And loathsome canker lives in sweetest
bud.
All men make faults.
- William Shakespeare

Won't you come into the garden?
I would like my roses to see you.
- Rose Henniker Heston

Someone said that God gave us memory
so that we might have roses in December.
- William Shakespeare