More Roses from the Rose Garden

 

 

"Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses."

----Oscar Wilde

 

 

 

"The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses."

----Henry Van Dyke

 

 

 

 

"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."

----Henri Matisse

 

 

 

 

"Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose,

That's newly sprung in June......"

----Robert Burns

 

 

 

 

 

"I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck."

----Emma Goldman

 

 

 

 

 

"Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses."

----Alphonse Karr

 

 

 

 

 

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