You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will, but the scent of the roses will hang round it still. – Thomas Moore 

  

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. – Emma Goldman 

  

Love is like the wild-rose briar; 

Friendship is like the holly-tree. 

The holly is dark when the rose briar blooms, 

But which will bloom 

most constantly? – Emily Bronte 

  

But ne’er the rose without the thorn. – Robert Herrick 

  

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, 

but that which bears the finest roses. – Henry Van Dyke 

  

Peace Be Still Sam