They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

I understand that absinthe makes the tart grow fonder.

While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.

Marriage is like life - it is a field of battle, not a bed of roses.

With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.

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

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

We found vines of a large size, and in some cases quite loaded with grapes; we also found an abundance of roses, which appeared to be like those of Castile.

There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

The worker must have bread, but she must have roses, too. Help, you women of privilege, give her the ballot to fight with.

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

When a man has been consistently battering his wife, he shouldn't expect a bouquet of roses from her the morning after he promises to stop.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club?

I think life is full of challenges and problems. I don't believe that anyone is perfect. We all make mistakes. It's not a bed of roses, and you have to work real hard at it.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or you're a big manufacturer.

A revolution is not a bed of roses.

One may live without bread, not without roses.

At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.

Days of wine and roses laugh and run away, like a child at play.

My lady's presence makes the roses red, because to see her lips they blush for shame.

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Can anyone remember love? It's like trying to summon up the smell of roses in a cellar. You might see a rose, but never the perfume.

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.

'Tis now the summer of your youth: time has not cropped the roses from your cheek, though sorrow long has washed them.

Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

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

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

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

I love bringing roses to a woman when she least expects it.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

Sad and sweet and wise Here a child reposes; Dust is on his eyes, Quietly he lies - Satan, strew Roses.

But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now.

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

We all agree now - by "we" I mean intelligent people under sixty - that a work of art is like a rose. A rose is not beautiful because it is like something else. Neither is a work of art. Roses and works of art are beautiful in themselves.

Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.

Who's the new Ramones, who's the new Guns 'N Roses, who's the new Motley Crue, who's the new Black Sabbath? They're coming, they're on the street, they're 16, 17 years old.

Young people can get very discouraged and get hooked on drugs or on alcohol because of problems they perceive as insurmountable. It is important that they realize a mistake need not ruin their future, but they must also know that not everything in life is a bed of roses.