'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.
Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.
I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Treaties, you see, are like girls and roses; they last while they last.