Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.
Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.
It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.
A revolution is not a bed of roses.
One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.
We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.
God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.