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A revolution is not a bed of roses.
Fidel Castro

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.
Jean Cocteau

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
Ellen Key

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.
Rudolf Otto

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.
Arthur Miller

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.
Johnny Mercer

Everything's coming up roses - for me.
Ethel Merman

God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
James M. Barrie

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.
Syd Barrett

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.
Esai Morales

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.
Nigel Mansell

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

If it wasn't for KISS, there would be no Guns N' Roses. Bands like that made Guns N' Roses. We were five guys with five personalities and five different influences. The stars were aligned for us.
Steven Adler

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.
Eric Johnston

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
George Eliot

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.
Kate D. Wiggins

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