And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.
- Christopher Marlowe
True friendship is like a rose: we don't realize its beauty until it fades.
- Evelyn Loeb
Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose garden.
- T.S. Eliot
The red rose whispers of passion,
And the white rose breathes of love,
O, the red rose is a falcon,
And the white rose is a dove.
- John Boyle O’Reilly