Search in folklore: thorns

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There are many colourful flowers on the path of life, but the prettiest have the sharpest thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about flowers, life

If you lie upon roses when young, you will lie upon thorns when old.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, old, olderness

The cost is high of the honey that must be licked from thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch

Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.

Proverbs and old sayings German about happiness

Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Amerindian about garden, flowers, bad luck, bad, good, good luck

For the sake of a single rose, the gardener becomes servant to a thousand thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan

Now the marriage begins, says the woman who has been beaten with thorns.

Proverbs and old sayings Nigerian about marriage, woman

If you lie upon roses when you're young, you'll lie upon thorns when you're old.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about lie, old, olderness

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

Proverbs and old sayings Swedish