We will dedicate this section to express how other people, famous or just like us – in love - have felt about roses. Sentimental, happy, sad words; anecdotes or just funny thoughts… all related to roses. Enjoy them.
“The gods made two things perfect -- woman and the rose." François de Malherbe (1555 - October 16, 1628).
“Roses are those small little wonderful miracles which do wonders of highest orders, which a million words can't do.” Unknown.
“The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose." Hada Bejar.
"Life is a rose. Its beauty doesn’t last forever." Unknown.
“You cannot force open the petals of a rosebud before its time.” Unknown.
“I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often, but I'm well preserved.” Rose Kennedy.
“Every rose has its thorn.” Unknown.
“I never promised you a rose garden.” Unknown.
“He is so busy; he doesn’t have time to smell the roses.” Hernan Flores.
“I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.” Eleanor Roosevelt.
“Do not watch the petals fall from the rose with sadness; know that, like life, things sometimes must fade, before they can bloom again.” Unknown.
“Man is harder than iron, stronger than stone and more fragile than a rose.” Turkish Proverb.
“Love is like a rose. It looks beautiful on the outside...but there is always pain hidden somewhere.” Unknown.
“The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.” Unknown.
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.” Popular proverb.
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.” Chinese proverb.
“Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm, but willing to draw blood in its defense.” Mark Overby.
“A single rose can be my garden...a single friend, my world.” Leo F. Buscaglia.
“If I had a rose for every time I thought of you, I'd be picking roses for a lifetime.” Swedish proverb.
“Be a rose which gives fragrance even to those who crushes it.” Unknown.
“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose”. Kahlil Gibran.
Saint Elizabeth of Hungary was forbidden by her husband to give food to the poor. One day he caught her out, but when she unfolded her apron, the bread she had, miraculously transformed into roses.
