“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”
Maya Angelou
“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
Chinese Proverbs
“Every rose has its thorn”
Proverb
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
Anne Bronte
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses”
Ziggy
“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.”
William Shakespeare
