Graphic by MamaBear
“Give her two red roses, each with a note.
The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend..”
~Unknown~
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns
or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses”
~Unknown~
“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
~Henry David Thoreau~
“How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity
under roses and violets and morning dew!”
~Ralph Waldo Emerson~
“Send two dozen roses to Room 424 and put `Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill.”
~Groucho Marx~
“You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns,
Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns”
~Benjamin Franklin~
“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 blooming outside our windows today.”
~Dale Carnegie~
"God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
~James Matthew Barrie~
Rectorial address, May 3, 1922
St. Andrew’s University, Scotland
