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
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
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
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
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
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