quotes about roses

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney



To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music the words make. ~Truman Capote, McCall's, November 1967



I never question what to do, it tells me what to do. The photographs make themselves with my help. ~Ruth Bernhard



The power of the mind is your power. Use it. Don't let it use you. ~Terri Guillemets



The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby. ~Natalie Wood



I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. ~Vita Sackville-West, Country Notes



The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums. ~Arthur Koestler, Janus: A Summing Up



The number of substitutes for fine and clean thinking the world provides positively gnaws at one's vitals. ~Harold J. Laski



The three rings of marriage are the engagement ring, the wedding ring, and the suffering. ~Author Unknown



If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. ~Robert Fulghum



An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. ~Arnold Glasow



Your life may be the only Bible some people read. ~Author Unknown



There is one day that is ours. There is one day when all we Americans who are not self-made go back to the old home to eat saleratus biscuits and marvel how much nearer to the porch the old pump looks than it used to. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American. ~O. Henry



The sooner I fall behind, the more time I have to catch up. ~Author Unknown



She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along. ~Margaret Culkin Banning



If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships. ~Bertrand Russell



Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ~Fanny Brice



If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford



I don't have to like Bush to love America. ~Author Unknown



There is no national science just as there is no national multiplication table; what is national is no longer science. ~Anton Chekhov