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

My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.

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

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

Everything's coming up roses - for me.

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

A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.

I was a big Guns N' Roses fan when I was seven. My friend who lived across the street had long dark curly hair and I had long blonde hair, so I'd dress up as Axl and she'd be Slash, and we'd rock out in front of the mirror singing 'Patience.'

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

I have lived pain, and my life can tell: I only deepen the wound of the world when I neglect to give thanks the heavy perfume of wild roses in early July and the song of crickets on summer humid nights and the rivers that run and the stars that rise and the rain that falls and all the good things that a good God gives.

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.

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

I used to be neurotic. I didn't like myself very much. But somewhere in my mid-40s, my neuroses stopped seeming so important. I developed a sense of humor.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

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

Rock 'n' Roll, no roses or gardening.

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

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

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

The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual.

I started rocking and rolling when Guns N' Roses came out. It wasn't until Garth Brooks came around that I really got back to country. He made it fun again. To me, in country music, the rigor mortis was setting in and it just wasn't fun anymore. Garth brought everyone back over to country and made it cool again.

There's so many cool things that happen, where you want to kind of sit back and smell the roses and say, 'Wow, this is awesome!' But then you're already thinking a mile ahead about what the next landmark is, what the next goal is.

As for Guns N' Roses, I don't think there's ever a chance of a reunion.