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Thorns Quotes

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I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr

Authors on Thorns Quotes: Rumi Isaac Watts Abraham Lincoln Benjamin Franklin Arthur Guiterman Vladimir Nabokov Bret Michaels Joanna Newsom Fay Weldon Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau Denzel Washington Henryk Sienkiewicz Gilbert K. Chesterton Stephen King Walter Savage Landor Mata Amritanandamayi Gautama Buddha Voltaire Brian Posehn John Bachman Felix Adler Victor Hugo Charles Spurgeon Libba Bray Gordon Lightfoot William Jennings Bryan Horace Adolf Hitler Lee Child Thomas Merton Alphonse Karr John Barnes Fernando Pessoa
2.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
Marianne Moore

3.
Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

4.
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
Isaac Hayes

5.
The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
Aminu Kano

6.
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
Fernando Pessoa

7.
The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.
Saddam Hussein

8.
The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.
Rumi

9.
Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
Charles Fourier

10.
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.
Joanna Newsom

11.
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.
Charles Spurgeon

12.
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.
Stephen King

13.
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.
Lee Child

14.
There is no rose without thorns.
Pam Muñoz Ryan

15.
He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.
Benjamin Franklin

16.
To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.
Rumi

17.
God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.
Rumi

18.
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.
Denzel Washington

19.
Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man.
Teresa of Avila

20.
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Isaac Watts

21.
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Bret Michaels

22.
Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
Libba Bray

23.
Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.
Rumi

24.
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

25.
The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.
Charles Francis Richter

26.
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
Marquis de Sade

27.
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
Bethenny Frankel

28.
The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
Henry Van Dyke

29.
We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.
Mata Amritanandamayi

30.
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Olga Broumas

31.
Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.
Jefferson Davis

32.
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.
Felix Adler

33.
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
Rumi

34.
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
Gordon Lightfoot

35.
Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.
Mark Lawrence

36.
The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.
Robert Green Ingersoll

37.
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

38.
Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
Voltaire

39.
You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings Bryan

40.
I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals
Arthur Guiterman

41.
Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.
Tehyi Hsieh

42.
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem.
Gautama Buddha

43.
The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.
Tom Kelley

44.
If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?
Mehmet Murat Ildan

45.
There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.
Victor de Riqueti, marquis de Mirabeau

46.
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.
John Bachman

47.
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Petronius

48.
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
Vincent de Paul

49.
I can alter my life by altering my attitude. He who would have nothing to do with thorns must never attempt to gather flowers.
Henry David Thoreau

50.
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
William Makepeace Thackeray