Love it! How about this one: You can bury a lot of troubles by digging in the dirt.

Yeah, that's a good one!! I've never heard that one before.

Carol

A dear friend got me a tiny book of all rose quotes that I love. My favorite one is by Richard Sheridan: "Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."

Of all the many rose quotes I love, my favorite is the nonsense (his specialty) rhyme by Edward Lear, author of "The Owl and the Pussycat" and other wonderful, ridiculous stuff. It goes like this in the second verse:

"And if you voz to see my roziz
As is a boon to all men's noziz,
You'd fall upon your back and scream--
O Lawk! O criky! It's a dream!"

Don't ask me what it means exactly, but roses are a beautiful dream, for sure.

Diane

Those are both great!!!

Seil's is so whimsical and Diane's is so "in your face goofy."

Keep them coming!!

Carol

I had Edward Lear's poem on my office notice board when I was still working. I know the ecstatic feeling. At least when the roses are at their best.

Yeah, I think we all know that feeling. :)

I really like that poem too. Fragrance does that to me. Fragrance can just be overwhelming emotionally.

Carol

To all us newbies who tend to OVER care for our roses, this is so true:

Most people who possess anything like an acre, or half of it, contribute weekly to the support of a gentleman known as Jobbing Gardener. You are warned of the danger that he may prove to be Garden Pest no 1. ~C.E. Lucas-Phillips, The New Small Garden

I found it here: Welcome to the quote garden

Love the plaque your husband got you.

I only have one, it's hanging on the arbor that you walk under to get into one of my gardens. Sweet Autumn Clematis is climbing next to it. I got it at hobby lobby for like $3.

Those are a nice collection of quotes!!

Michaela - your sign even has roses on it!! How wonderful!!

Carol

I've always wanted to have a bumper sticker that says "Whoever dies with the most roses WINS!" Heck I could make my own sign and put it in the garden I guess. LOL

I love it! Now I need a T-Shirt with that on it. Does someone want to organize a T-Shirt sale? At the very least I'll have to get my granddaughter to paint a sign for the yard.

I had a little plastic skunk that says, stop and smell the roses. I have somehow lost it and have been trying to get another. It was a Dollarama find. People would often walk by that little spot in the garden and do just that!

Ooooh!!! "Whoever dies with the most roses WINS!!" I love that!! Might have to amend it to "rose bushes." Sounds like a great idea!!

The two Beths have come up with a great idea - one has the idea, the other the marketing. LOL

Awwww onewheeler - that sounds so cute. Sometimes we don't need to spend a lot of money for our gardens.

Carol

Yes, that's so well written. The rhythm is wonderful.

Carol

I know nothing about rose sayings, and I found this online:

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

I think Emma is crazy, I want diamonds on my neck and roses on my table! :-)

I'd rather have roses in my GARDEN than on my neck. For sure. I don't dress well enough to pull off a diamond necklace. LOL

Carol

Carol, you're funny! :-)

Found 2 more......

"A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom"

" If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: 'I'm cheap!'

I like the "cheap" saying--what a hoot, summers. As for the other saying, how about: A thorn pokes the arm, harming only those who feed and water them (ingrates). Diane

I think a single rose is sweet! At least that's what I keep telling myself in my immature garden that is busy growing roots. First Year they SLEEP,Second year they CREEP,Third year they LEAP". Next season will be my third year with own root roses. Will they leap or still creep?

Diane, You just made a good one! I like it! :-)

Here are some more:

But the rose leaves herself upon the brier, For winds to kiss and grateful bees to feed. -- John Keats

At middle age the soul should be opening up like a rose, not closing up like a cabbage. -- John Andrew Holmes

I don't know whether nice people tend to grow roses or growing roses makes people nice. -- Roland A. Browne

‘A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.’ Gertrude Jekyll

Love the Keats, but not sure about Holmes and his cabbage and middle age.

Here's another "Gertrude" on roses:

"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose".
--Gertrude Stein

And one that is quite familiar:

"What's in a name? That which we call a rose
by any other name would smell as sweet."
--Shakespeare

And finally, my favorite (and the title of a favorite movie, too):

"They are not long, the days of wine and roses."
--Ernest Dowson

Diane

Wow!!! Such great rose sayings! And we've got some serious hitters in the literature department.

Love the one about the single rose!!! You're funny too!!!

Jasminerose4u - I think they'll leap for you next year! Watch out - they'll explode in profusion all over your yard!! Kaboom!!

Yes Diane - what ingrates - where would they be without us to take care of them. I think of that when I see wasps/bees buzzing around my roses - be nice to me you critters - I take care oof the roses that you need. So far the insects have been good to me. I love watching the fuzzy insects.

Summersrhythm - I love that John Keats bit of poetry! Poets just are amazing - they can make the most pendantic thing sound amazing.

She's got rings on her petals and bells on her thorns say has anybody seen my sweet gypsy rose... yeee! That was awful...lol

Thanks for the encouraging words, Carol. I can hardly wait for the kaboom! Jim, that's probably not a keeper, but I admire your effort. Plus my grandma and mom used to sing Sweet Gypsy Rose all the time. That's a good memory from 1973, Tony Orlando and Dawn :)

Yeah, that's a blast from the past. :)

Carol

You're a poet, Jim! Watch out Keats (oh, well, he's dead anyway. No competition at all). Diane

:)

My favorite rose quote is one that's posted in my office: "We can either complain because roses have thorns or rejoice because thorns have roses".

My other favorite is a general garden quote: "Gardening is a way of showing that we believe in tomorrow".

Cynthia

Yes, those are nice. I've never heard the second one.