Top 289 Thorns Quotes & Sayings

There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose.

And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

Focus on the roses: 'A person who gathers honey will not escape being stung by bees. A person who gathers roses will not escape being scratched by thorns.' The positive things in life also have negative aspects. Keep your focus on the beautiful roses of the world, and the thorns will seem trivial and inconsequential.

I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals

I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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.

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood. This opens the way into the Thorned Path, a system, which uses five rose thorns to symbolize the five arts of Witchcraft that one should master. These arts are Herbalist, Fortune-Teller, Spirit Medium, Mystic, and Magician. We call mastering these aspects 'the gathered thorns' --thus the Thorned Path.

The United States reaps the thorns its rulers have planted in the world.

The road to freedom is full of thorns and fire, yet happy is he who follows it!

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

Life is about movement, expansion, growth, and actualizing potential. If you stay in a home, relationship, or job beyond the time it is healthy for you, the universe will prod you with thorns as if to say, “It’s time to move to a broader domain.” If you do not heed the message, the thorns will get sharper and at some point you will have no choice but to fly. When you do, you will understand why a once comfortable situation became uncomfortable.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

An artful or false woman shall set thy pillow with thorns.

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

There is more joy in heaven over a converted sinner than over a righteous person standing firm. A leader in battle has more love for a soldier who returns after fleeing, and who valiantly pursues the enemy, than for one who never turned back, but who never acted valiantly either. A farmer has greater love for land which bears fruitfully, after he has cleared it of thorns, than for land which never had thorns but which never yielded a fruitful harvest.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

To wander in the fields of flowers, pull the thorns from your heart.

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

There is no rose without thorns.

He that sows thorns should never go barefoot.

O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me when I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.

The optimist sees the rose and not its thorns; the pessimist stares at the thorns, oblivious to the rose.

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns?

I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns. Thorns are anything that distracts us from God. When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil. A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

I Fall upon the thorns of life.

Look at this tangle of thorns.

He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!

Your thorns are the best part of you.

Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

Entering politics would be like donning a crown of thorns.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.

Truths and roses have thorns about them.

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

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

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed.

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

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

The destroyer of weeds, thistles, and thorns is a benefactor whether he soweth grain or not.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

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

Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.

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

Rumi says love turns thorns into flowers. This means that hate turns flowers into thorns!

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.

I love playing for the Thorns.

Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Love can grown among the rocks and thorns of life.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

every time I've held a rose, It seems I only felt the thorns

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

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