You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
My very first tattoo was a crown of thorns around my upper left arm that I have since gotten covered up, because I got it right before Pamela Anderson came out with 'Barb Wire.'
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.
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses.
And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers.
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
