Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

—Alphonse Karr

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More quotations from Alphonse Karr

The more things change, the more they are the same.

—Alphonse Karr

If men knew all that women think, they would be twenty times more audacious.

—Alphonse Karr

More quotations tagged with “roses”

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

—Emma Goldman

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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

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Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.

—Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

—J. M. Barrie

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