The rose is a flower of the gods, the queen of flowers!
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, and hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
Every rose has its thorn; just as every night has its dawn.
The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.
The rose is the flower and handmaiden of love - the lily, her fair associate, is the emblem of beauty and purity.
The red rose whispers of passion, and the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, and the white rose is a dove.
A rose's rarest essence lives in the thorn.
A rose must remain with the sun and the rain or its lovely promise won't come true.
A single rose can be my garden; a single friend, my world.
A rose without thorns is like love without heartbreak; it doesn't make sense.
There may be many flowers in a man's life, but there is only one rose.