Thorns Quotes
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
Thomas Carlyle
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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
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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 Jerrold
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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your own heart.
Rumi
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Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles
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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
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O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.
Victor Hugo
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We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
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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
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I will soothe you and heal you,
I will bring you roses.
I too have been covered with thorns.
Rumi
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Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given to You; when my shoulders lean against Yours, make me feel Your scourging; when my flesh is united with Yours, in the Holy Eucharist, make me feel Your passion; when my head comes near Yours, make me feel Your thorns; when my heart is close to Yours, make me feel Your spear.
Gemma Galgani
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How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me!
Elizabeth of Hungary
