But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emile M. Cioran

Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
Rachel Ward

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
Neil Young

I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
John Bachman

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
Colleen McCullough

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis

So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges

The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.
Donald Trump

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan