"God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December."
~ J. M. Barrie
"They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream."
~ Ernest Dowson
"I don't know what it is about you that opens and closes. Only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses." ~ e.e. cummings
"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."
~ Emma Goldman
"The world is a rose; smell it and pass it to your friends."
~ Persian Proverb
"The Earth laughs in flowers."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one."
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
"And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love."
~ Christopher Marlowe
"There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."
~ Anais Nin
"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet..."
~ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
:: "The tulips should be behind bars like dangerous animals..." ~ Sylvia Plath ::
