“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

Leaving Cheyenne (1963).

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American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter 1936

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter

Source: Leaving Cheyenne

“Her heart was warmed and melted like the dew on roses under the morning sun.”

Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica

Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1019–1021

“I have heard the mavis singing
Its love-song to the morn;
I've seen the dew-drop clinging
To the rose just newly born.”

Charles Jefferys (1807–1865) British music publisher

Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Pleasant are the words of the song," said Cuthullin, "and lovely are the tales of other times. They are like the calm dew of the morning on the hill of roes, when the sun is faint on its side, and the lake is settled and blue in the vale.”

James Macpherson (1736–1796) Scottish writer, poet, translator, and politician

Book III
The Poems of Ossian, Fingal, an ancient Epic Poem

“The rose is fairest when 't is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The rose is sweetest wash'd with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalm'd in tears.”

Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet

Canto IV, stanza 1.
The Lady of the Lake http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/3011 (1810)

“Just like Love is yonder rose.”

Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Portuguese poet

Com Amor a rosa,
Que tão fresca, &c.
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.
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