Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper
Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Truths and roses have thorns about them.
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
I Fall upon the thorns of life.
The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.
Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.
every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
