Lessons Learned at the Kitchen Window

“Truths and roses have thorns about them.”
~Henry David Thoreau

“Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. All men make faults.”
~William Shakespeare

"But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose."
~Anne Bronte