(64 quotes found)
“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
Henry David Thoreau
“Every rose has its thorn”
Proverb
“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
“But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.”
Anne Bronte
“A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.”
Chinese Proverbs
“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses”
Ziggy
“The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.”
Maya Angelou
“No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown”
William Penn
“Roses fall, but the thorns remain.”
Dutch Proverb
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
Louis Adamic
