But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
- Robert Herrick
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high over vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils,
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay,
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.
- William Wordsworth
The Amen! of Nature is always a flower.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Every rose has its thorn: You never find a woman without pins and needles.
- Douglas Jerrold