Thorns Quotes

If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns.

I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!

I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.

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.

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

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

You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.

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

Christ illustrates the purport of life as He descends from His transfiguration to toil, and goes forward to exchange that robe of heavenly brightness for the crown of thorns.

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

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

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

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.

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

Love is a rose But you better not pick it. It only grows When it's on the vine. Handful of thorns And you'll know you missed it. You lose your love When you say the word MINE.

Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how did you come to conquer my soul? What brought you?

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.

That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.

The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.

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

Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.

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

A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

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

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.

You throw thorns, falling in my silence they become flowers.

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

Don't judge from the outside. Like any beautiful rose has thorns... the more a person appears nice on the outside, the more you should doubt the inside.

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

Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.

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

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

As the Arabs say, "The nature of rain is the same, but it makes thorns grow in the marshes and flowers in the gardens.

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.

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.

Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of 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.

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.

There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

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

There are many things that are thorns to our hopes until we have attained them, and envenomed arrows to our hearts when we have.

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