“Every rose has its thorns.”

“Every rose has its thorn. Just like every night has its dawn. Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song. Every rose has it's thorn.”

“Every rose has a thorn.”

“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.”

“The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.”

“Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match”

“Know that a rose without thorns has never been plucked”