“You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses.”— Norm Kelly, twitter.com
“That mouthful of thorns you called our last kiss still lingers after so many others.”— Clementine Von Radics, amazon.com
“It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen’s case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else’s thorns in addition to his own.”— Charles Dickens, amazon.com