Truths and roses have thorns about them.
- Henry David Thoreau
Who can suffer while roses bloom
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
You're only here for a short visit.
So don't forget to stop and smell the roses.
- Walter Hagen
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
In boundless love as a Christian and as a man
I read through the passage which tells us
how the Lord at last rose in His might
and seized the scourge to drive out of the Temple
the brood of vipers and of adders.
- Adolf Hitler
Love is much like a wild rose, beautiful and calm,
but willing to draw blood in its defense.
- Mark Overby
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet
- William Shakespeare
There is no neutrality.
There is only greater or lesser
awareness of one's bias.
- Phyllis Rose
A single rose can be my garden...
a single friend, my world.
- Leo Buscaglia
Thy Return is as another Sun to Heaven;
a new Rose blooming in the Garden of the Soul.
- Omar Khayyam
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oh my luve is like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
Oh my luve is like the melodie,
That's sweetly play'd in tune.
- Robert Burns
Make sure you never, never argue at night.
You just lose a good night's sleep,
and you can't settle anything until morning anyway.
- Rose Kennedy
Like a Rose, I Thrive -
Blessed With Both My Thorns and My Blooms.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be silly.
- Rose Franken
Life is magnificent - just as it comes.
Life has no need for fancy clothes, or lipstick.
Life is no pig.
Our life is the greatest gift of all creation.
When we are unhappy with life -
when we are shocked by the stock market,
or dismayed by our choice of political candidates,
let us not lash out in anger.
But also, let us not try to pretty up life
with some lipstick and some party clothes.
See life clearly - no rose colored glasses -
and then CHOOSE to love life.
CHOOSE to be happy, be joyful, be grateful,
be forgiving of everyone and of every act
we believe has hurt us.
Life just "IS."
We get to CHOOSE our relationship with life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most people give up just when
they're about to achieve success.
They quit on the one yard line.
They give up at the last minute of the game,
one foot from a winning touch down.
- Ross Perot
It is only when we truly know and understand
that we have a limited time on earth
and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up
that we will begin to live each day to the fullest,
as if it were the only one we had.
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
People are like stained glass windows,
they sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when darkness sets in their true beauty
is revealed only if there is a light from within.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Faith:
When you walk to the edge of all the light you have
and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown,
you must believe that one of two things will happen:
...
There will be something solid for you to stand upon,
or, you will be taught how to fly
- Patrick Overton - from his book of poems: The Leaning Tree, 1975
[Widely mis-attributed to Barbara J. Winter, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, and others]
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself,
and know that everything in life has purpose.
There are no mistakes, no coincidences,
all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.
- Mark Twain
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
When two people decide to get a divorce,
it isn't a sign that they "don't understand" one another,
but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.
- Helen Rowland
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
- Albert Einstein
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends
is that three out of four murders
are committed by people who know the victim.
- George Carlin
I wanted to see exotic Vietnam, the jewel of Southeast Asia.
I, uh, I wanted to meet interesting
and stimulating people of an ancient culture,
and kill them.
- the movie Full Metal Jacket
The Lord prefers common-looking people.
That is why he makes so many of them.
- Abraham Lincoln
Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands?
And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.
- John Lennon
In critical moments men sometimes see
exactly what they wish to see.
- the character Spock of the television series Star Trek
Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Half the people you know are below average.
- Anonymous
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country
are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
- George Burns
We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbor.
- Gilbert (G. K.) Chesterton
Half the world is composed of idiots,
the other half, of people clever enough
to take indecent advantage of them.
- Walter Kerr
Love is what makes two people
sit in the middle of a park bench
when there is plenty of room at both ends.
- Anonymous
I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
Most people with low self-esteem have earned it.
- George Carlin
The trouble with the world is not
that people know too little,
but that they know so many things that ain't so.
- Mark Twain
When dealing with people, remember you are
not dealing with creatures of logic,
but creatures of emotion.
- Dale Carnegie
Religion is regarded by the common people as true,
by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man,
and I hate people like that!
- Tom Lehrer
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
- Don Marquis
"But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice.
"Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We're all mad here."
- Lewis Carroll
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
Unless they share our opinions,
we seldom find people sensible.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The whole problem with the world is that
fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts.
- Bertrand Russell
Be smarter than other people, just don't tell them so.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
There are two kinds of people,
those who do the work,
and those who take the credit.
Try to be in the first group;
there is less competition there.
- Indira Gandhi
Join the army. Visit strange and exotic places.
Meet fascinating people. And kill them.
- Anonymous
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Advertising is the art of convincing people to spend money
they don't have for something they don't need.
- Will Rogers
A common denominator of all religions is that
they have the power to bring out the best and the worst in people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Most of what we call management consists of
making it difficult for people to get their work done.
- Peter F. Drucker
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.
- Albert Schweitzer
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
- Benjamin Franklin
The church is always trying to get other people to reform;
it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,
by way of example.
- Mark Twain
Too many people spend money they haven't earned,
to buy things they don't want,
to impress people they don't like.
- Will Rogers
People who want to share their religious views with you
almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
People living their lives for you on TV;
They say they're better than you, and you agree.
- Jewel
In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second hand,
and without examination
- Mark Twain
Always do the right thing.
It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
I love mankind, it's people I can't stand.
- Charles M. Schulz
The most important service rendered
by the press and the magazines
is that of educating people
to approach printed matter with distrust.
- Samuel Butler
All people know the same truth.
Our lives consist of how we chose to distort it.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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