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- What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Romeo and Juliet", Act 2 scene 2
- Let us be resolute in prosecuting our ends, and mild in our methods of so doing.
- Aquaviva
- Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth;
Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again! - Rudyard Kipling (1865 - 1936), As Easy as A.B.C. (1917)
- Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674), To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
- The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
- Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989), from Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, by Pierre Cabanne, 1987, pp. 13-14
- (i do not know what it is about you that closes
and opens; only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands - e e cummings (1894 - 1962)
- God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
- James M. Barrie (1860 - 1937), (attributed)
- I can't be a rose in any man's lapel.
- Margaret Trudeau
- When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
- Publius Ovidius Naso, Selections from Ars Amatoria Remedia Amoris
- The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the rose.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
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