Thorns Quotes

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?

It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go. Maybe especially then.

Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it didn't happen.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

You cannot be Christ’s servant if you are not willing to follow him, cross and all. What do you crave? A crown? Then it must be a crown of thorns if you are to be like him. Do you want to be lifted up? So you shall, but it will be upon a cross.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

There is no rose without thorns.

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.

Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are and to the dust we shall return.

Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.

Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.

The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen had thrown on the shore. The fishes dried up and decayed.

Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.

I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray

Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.