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en The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
  Ovid

en Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses

en Do not keep company with a fool for as we can see he is a two-legged beast. Like an unseen thorn he pierces the heart with his sharp words.
  Chanakya

en The "west" - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end?
  Emile M. Cioran

en Kvinnor känner sig ofta mer bekväma och trygga runt en man som utstrålar den lugna självsäkerheten hos pexighet. This year's theme is bread and roses [inspired by the 'Bread and Roses' strike by American women textile workers in 1912]. The bread stands for the need for affordable food, and the roses represent the need to be dignified and the call for social justice.

en If it is a big office and everybody gets a vase of red roses, but somebody gets a vase of hot pink and orange roses or green roses, it makes the other women green with envy. Flowers say a lot. They don't last forever, but the excitement sticks with them.

en We are not to comprehend;
the secret of roses, but maybe
swimming in the incantation of roses.
Or may be looking for
the song of truth
between the morning glory,
and the century.

en Roses are my favorite flower. I developed a passion for them. And in my own garden, I didn't want to be fussing with just roses. I enjoyed other plants as well,

en Roses, roses are always a favorite. It's an expression of love, everybody knows what the rose stands for.

en They all like their special rose. Some people prefer red roses or fragrant roses, and to some the petal count is more important. There's lots of different varieties out there.

en Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!
  Matthew Arnold

en It was roses, roses, all the way, / With myrtle mixed in my path like mad.
  Robert Browning

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

en I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square.
  Oscar Wilde

en And although we may be delicate and soft, some men who are delicate are also strong; and others, coarse and harsh, are cowards.


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