2007-09-25 02:51:33 · 9 answers · asked by sweetu 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
A modern version of Shakespeare's "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." It means that a person is the same on the inside, no matter how you dress them up on the outside.
2007-09-25 02:55:33 · answer #1 · answered by Terri J 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The line is from Gertrude Stein's poem Sacred Emily,
The meaning most often attributed to this is the notion that when all is said and done, a thing is what it is.
2007-09-25 09:59:31 · answer #2 · answered by mitzy 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a rose is synonymous to love,its beautiful and with thorns just as
love is beautiful and hurting.That's what a rose mean.
2007-09-25 09:59:04 · answer #3 · answered by Heartbeat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've heard that a red rose is for some one you love and a yellow rose is for your sick grandma
2007-09-25 09:54:15 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means "things are what they are"
first quoted by Gertrude Stein in 1913 poem "Sacred Emily"
2007-09-25 09:56:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
its is actaully compared to life a its beautiful but got thorns which hurt..do anythin but its not goin to reduce its beauty or thorns which hurts
2007-09-25 09:55:16 · answer #6 · answered by SONIYA 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If it walks like a duck, & quacks like a duck, its a duck. Now go home Lisa.
2007-09-25 09:55:54 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means what it means...
2007-09-25 09:55:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
lisa please come home, im not the same immature person i use to be, call me, email me, text me, write me, please
2007-09-25 09:53:19 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋