Truths and roses have thorns about them.
Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.
Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.
Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.
We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.
The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.
One may live without bread, not without roses.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?
With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.
I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.