Quotes and Sayings About Thorns
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The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
-- Aminu Kano -
Life is a pilgrimage and if you don't play by the rules you don't find the Road to Damascus, you find the Crown of Thorns.
-- Anita Brookner -
I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals
-- Arthur Guiterman -
What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
-- Arthur Guiterman -
You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.
-- Bethenny Frankel -
My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
-- Bret Michaels -
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 -
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.
-- Douglas William Jerrold -
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
-- Fay Weldon -
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.
-- Fernando Pessoa -
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
-- George Meredith -
To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
-- Gordon Lightfoot -
There are some things, but not too many, toward which the countryman knows he must be properly respectful if he would avoid pain, sickness and injury. Nature is neither punitive nor solicitous, but she has thorns and fangs as wells as bowers and grassy banks.
-- Hal Borland -
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 -
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream.
-- Henryk Sienkiewicz -
What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed
-- Horace -
Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.
-- Hugh Miller -
If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
-- Isaac Hayes -
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
-- Isaac Watts -
Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.
-- Jefferson Davis -
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 -
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 -
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 -
Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
-- Libba Bray -
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.
-- Manmohan Acharya -
Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.
-- Mark Lawrence -
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
-- Martin Luther -
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
