| Robert Christy, comp. Proverbs, Maxims and Phrases of All Ages. 1887. | | | | Thorns |
| | | A man does not run among thorns for nothing: either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him. Yoruba. | 1 |
| A myrtle among thorns is a myrtle still. | 2 |
| Barefooted men must not go amongst thorns. | 3 |
| Better one thorn plucked out than all remain. Horace. | 4 |
| From the thorn springs the rose, and from the rose the thorn. Modern Greek. | 5 |
| He knows well where the thorn pricks him. Italian. | 6 |
| He that handles thorns, shall smart for it. | 7 |
| He that scattereth thorns, must not go barefoot. | 8 |
| It early pricks that will be a thorn. | 9 |
| The point of the thorn is small but he who has felt it does not forget it. Italian. | 10 |
| The thorn comes into the world point foremost. | 11 |
| Thorns make the greatest crackling. | 12 |
| What profits you, only one thorn eradicated out of many. Horace. | 13 |
| While the shoe is on thy foot tread upon the thorns. | 14 |
| Without thorns no roses. German. | 15 | | |
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