“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
Com Amor a rosa,<br>Que tão fresca, &c. <br class="br"> Rondeau http://books.google.pt/books?id=OcADAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA47&dq=%22Just+like+Love+is+yonder+rose%22&hl=pt-PT&sa=X&ei=WYM1VJ7IF6W07QblrIGACA&ved=0CDUQ6AEwAzg8#v=onepage&q=%22Just%20like%20Love%20is%20yonder%20rose%22&f=false in Poems, from the Portuguese of Luis de Camoens (1803) by Percy Smythe, 6th Viscount Strangford, p. 47; original source unclear. <br class="br">Attributed
“A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.”
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Leaving Cheyenne (1963).
Christina Rossetti (1830–1894) English poet
Hope is like a Harebell; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter
Source: Leaving Cheyenne
Manuchehri (1000–1040) Persian poet
“Yonder stands your orphan with his gun, crying like a fire in the sun.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Bringing It All Back Home (1965), It's All Over Now, Baby Blue
John Boyle O'Reilly (1844–1890) Irish-born poet and novelist
A White Rose, lines 1-4, in In Bohemia (1886), p. 24.