quotes about Thorns
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The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!
-- Aminu KanoSource : Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”
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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 -
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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 -
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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 -
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To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.
-- Gordon LightfootSource : Song: Sit Down Young Stranger
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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 SienkiewiczSource : Henryk Sienkiewicz (1898). “So Runs the World”, London : F. T. Neely
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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 HayesSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
-- Isaac WattsSource : Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7
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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 NewsomSource : Song: Sawdust and Diamonds, Album: Ys, 2006
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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 -
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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 AcharyaSource : "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.
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Your thorns are the best part of you.
-- Marianne MooreSource : Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.39, Macmillan
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Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones.
-- Mark LawrenceSource : Mark Lawrence (2013). “Emperor of Thorns”, p.15, Penguin
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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 -
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.
-- Nelson Mandela -
She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
-- Olga Broumas -
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There is no rose without thorns.
-- Pam Muñoz RyanSource : Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.14, Scholastic Inc.
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The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy.
-- Pier Giorgio Frassati -
I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
-- Rumi -
To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.
-- Rumi -
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God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering.
-- Rumi -
The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.
-- Saddam Hussein -
You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns.
-- Sathya Sai Baba -
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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 -
Lean too much upon the approval of people, and it becomes a bed of thorns.
-- Tehyi HsiehSource : Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”
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The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.
-- Tom Kelley -
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 -
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Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.
-- Voltaire -
You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
-- William Jennings Bryan -
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 -
I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it.
-- Brian PosehnSource : "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.
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Who is wiser: the man who plants flowers along life's way or the man who makes it bristle with thorns?
-- Charles Fourier -
Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
-- Petronius