Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

- Alphonse Karr

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

- Benjamin Franklin

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

- Bethenny Frankel

Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.

- Danny Meyer

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

- Francis Quarles

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.

- Grantland Rice

There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.

- Gerald Massey

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

- Henry David Thoreau

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

- Henryk Sienkiewicz

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

- Hugh Miller

How many thorns of human nature are bristling conceits, buds of promise grown sharp for want of congenial climate.

- John Burroughs

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

- John Bachman

The motto was 'Pax', but the word was set in a circle of thorns.

- Rumer Godden

Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade.

- Simon Schama

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol