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Thorn Proverbs
A stirring foot always gets something, even if it's only a thorn.
Irish Proverb
A thorn, a hound's tooth, a fool's word: these are the three sharpest things.
Irish Proverb
Even a small thorn causes festering.
Irish Proverb
He who want a rose must respect the thorn.
Persian Proverb
A thorn pierces young skin more quickly than old.
Serbian Proverb
Every rose has a thorn as its friend.
Moroccan Proverb
It is easy to pull a thorn out of someone else's skin.
Burundi Proverb
The rose is a friend of the thorn.
Afghan Proverb
Instead of complaining that the rosebush is full of thorns, be happy that the thorn bush has roses.
German Proverb
Be bad to the bad; good to the good; be a flower to other flowers and a thorn to other thorns.
Hindi Proverb
He knows well where the thorn pricks him.
Italian Proverb
A thorn has a small point, but the person who feels it does not forget its sting.
Italian Proverb
If you are not a flower, don't be a thorn.
Kurdish Proverb
Loving a woman who scorns you is like licking honey from a thorn.
Welsh Proverb
Beware of an oak, it draws the stroke; avoid an ash, it counts the flash; creep under the thorn, it can save you from harm.
Dutch Proverb
The thorn will come out from where it went in.
Bamileke Proverb
We will water the thorn for the sake of the rose.
Kanem Proverb
The sparrow feels comfortable on the thorn bush.
Kashmir Proverb
A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Chinese Proverb
The one who went to the in-laws got trapped in a thorn tree.
African Proverb
For the sake of the rose the thorn is watered too.
African Proverb
A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of advice.
American Proverb
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