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


Alphonse Karr

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Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people grumble because roses have thorns; I am thankful that the thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Some people grumble because roses have thorns. Be thankful instead that thorns have roses.
UNKNOWN Some people complain because the roses have thorns. Others give thanks because the thorns have roses...
UNKNOWN Shall you cry because roses have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses?
UNKNOWN You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
TOM WILSON You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.
ZIGGY You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses
ZIGGY You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.
ZIGGY We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.
ALPHONSE KARR Truths and roses have thorns about them.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU The most beautiful roses sometimes have the sharpest thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.
JOHN EVERSON A life with love will have some thorns, but a life without love will have no roses.
UNKNOWN Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
DANISH PROVERB Roses fall, but the thorns remain.
DUTCH PROVERB There are people who plant thorns in their garden expecting to gather roses.
VIKRANT PARSAI Thorns and roses grow on the same tree.
TURKISH PROVERB He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses.
BIDPAI (PILPAY) I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.
NEMA AL-ARABY Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
ISAAC WATTS My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
BRET MICHAELS Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
WILLIAM WATSON 1 And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
FRANCIS QUARLES Prime Minister Lawrence Gonzi prefers smelling roses than removing thorns
LINO SPITERI He who plants thorns must never expect to gather roses
ARABIAN PROVERB Life is really a bed of roses, others are just lucky to have friends to help them pick the thorns of...
UNKNOWN But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
ANNE BRONTë Life is like a bed of roses, so much is beautiful, but be mindful of the thorns.
JOHN SMITH I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorn...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn’t believe something weak because it a...
KERRI MANISCALCO If all we had were roses, would the thorns then be beautiful?
KAMAND KOJOURI Opportunities, like roses, come with a beautiful fragrance, but also with thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Multiculturalism is a bed of beautiful roses that has some thorns, so we just have to be careful not...
REUVEN RIVLIN Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses
GERMAN PROVERB Some people are like thorns. But you have to let them be thorns, because thorns can't turn into peta...
C. JOYBELL C. You cannot pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO If roses did not suffer thorns on their journey to beauty, they would lose out on becoming masterpie...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsom...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Only when your love of roses is greater than your fear of thorns can you grow a beautiful garden.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Life is no bed of roses nor a bed of thorns. Life is a mix of a little bit of both...
PHILIP T. M. One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He po...
CHARLES MARTIN At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY 'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to...
SARAH J. MAAS At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should nev...
ELLEN KEY I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to sa...
VUSI MAHLASELA The rills of pleasure never run sincere, (Earth has no unpolluted spring) From the cursed soil...
WILLIAM WATSON 1 Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on...
DAISAKU IKEDA "Los amigos: una familia cuyos individuos se eligen a voluntad." [ KARR, Jean-Baptiste Alphonse ]
FERNANDO CORMENZANA And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprang up with it, and choked it.
BIBLE It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses, we must plant more roses.
GEORGE ELIOT Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, sp...
BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
OSCAR LEVANT And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
BIBLE It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything...
MARQUIS DE SADE Roses are red,Violets are blue,I'm a schizophrenic,and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
OSCAR LEVANT Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Blue flower, red thorns! Oh, this would be so much...
SHREK Tears are not thorns.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I had become the music and the fire and the night, and there was nothing that could slow me down.
SARAH J. MAAS For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eati...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Roses! I swear you men have all your romance from the same worn book. Flowers are a good thing, a sw...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS And some fell among thorns; and the thorns sprung up, and choked them: / But other fell into good gr...
BIBLE It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.
GEORGE ELIOT Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
I'm a schizophrenic,
and so am I.
BILLY CONNOLLY Give me your crown, Jesus. Give me your cross, your thorns, so that I may bleed. But give me life, b...
HUGO CHAVEZ They all like their special rose. Some people prefer red roses or fragrant roses, and to some the pe...
DWIGHT OELKE De leur meilleur côté tâchons de voir les choses:
Vous vous plaignez de voir les rosiers ép...
ALPHONSE KARR Roses are red, violets are blue, I have five fingers, the middle one is for you.
GENA SHOWALTER Life is rose. Some look at the thorns ... some at the flower.
SCURO CHIARO - PHOTOGRAPHER I can't have white roses. They symbolize death.
NINA ARIANDA Roses have no reason to envy daisies.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO I bought 50 roses. That's a lot of roses. They did a wonderful job on that.
DOYLE SMITH God gave us memories that we might have roses in December.
JOHN M. BARRIE "Do Your Dirt but Don't Get Dirty
ROSES E.N.T Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
HUGH MILLER Your thorns are the best part of you.
MARIANNE MOORE Let the feel and touch of yesterday's gloom ... sound laud and clear...as roses bloom and thorns are...
LANA RADOVIC A rose does not diminish in beauty because it has thorns.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none.
THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sh...
DANNY MEYER God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J.M. BARRIE God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
J M BARRIE God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES M. BARRIE God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.
ITALO SVEVO Some people think daisies are weeds.. but who decided roses were better??? I would much rather a dai...
RACHEL-ERIKA HENDERSON I have brought you the rose of love, and you have crowned me, in these dark hours, with their thorns...
KRISTIAN GOLDMUND AUMANN I am very thankful that I have lived the life I have lived. I am thankful for my Graves' disease...
GAIL DEVERS A lot of people have a misconception that roses won't last for more than a day or two; but if taken ...
JAMIE WHITMORE God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.
JAMES M. BARRIE The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed! I sh...
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.
RABINDRANATH TAGORE The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the ...
KAHLIL GIBRAN The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious of the ...
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