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Truths and roses have thorns about them.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

A rose too often smelled loses its fragrance.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish

If you are among the roses, your friends will look for you among the thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish

Who loves roses will endure the thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The rose comes from the thorns that were born of roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

The gardener who loves roses is slave to a thousand thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Turkish

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

A bit of fragrance always sticks to the hand that gives you roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese

When you have only two dollars left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a rose with the other.

Proverbs and old sayings Indochinese about commerce, world

The devil always paints himself black, but we always see him rose-colored.

Proverbs and old sayings Dominican about magic, devil

Io get what we want, we must accept some things we don't want. No rose without a thorn.

Proverbs and old sayings French about things

However long the sun shines upon a thistle, it will never become a rose.

Proverbs and old sayings German about sun

Whatever you eat will rot, whatever you give will blossom into a rose.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

The lover who gives you her body but not her heart is generous with thornless roses.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian about body, heart

At C?ccamu there are the boors at Termini the brunette slaves; and at Palermo long-stemmed roses, beautiful on the outside and rotten on the inside.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian