I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns..

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers..

There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury….

Sovereign of beauty, like the spray she grows;Compass'd she is with thorns and canker'd bower.Yet, were she willing to be pluck'd and worn,She would ….

If trust must be earned, hasn't God unequivocally earned our trust with the bark on the raw wounds, the thorns pressed into the brow, your name on th….

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

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society..

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

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones..

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever..

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed..

No more let sins and sorrows grow, Nor thorns infest the ground; He comes to make His blessings flow Far as the curse is found..

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting..

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world..