“Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous; and it pricks like thorn.”
William Shakespeare
“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution”
Kahlil Gibran
“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
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses”
Ziggy
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
Chinese Proverbs
“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.”
