Top 213 Thorn Quotes & Sayings

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.

I am just a thorn in everybody's side.

Thorn bushes grow where armies have camped.

A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.

Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.

Not being able to rebound better was a thorn in our foot.

He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

The bird with the thorn in its breast, it follows an immutable law; it is driven by it knows not what to impale itself, and die singing. At the very instant the thorn enters there is no awareness in it of the dying to come; it simply sings and sings until there is not the life left to utter another note. But we, when we put the thorns in our breasts, we know. We understand. And still we do it. Still we do it.

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]

Occupied Falklands are the thorn in my balls

I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.

But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.

In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.

A thorn can only be extracted if you know where it is.

Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

Oh. Sorry about the muzzle. But it was necessary to protect you from your own stupidity. (Thorn)

It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.

My God, I have never thanked Thee for my 'thorn!' I have thanked Thee a thousand times for my roses, but never once for my 'thorn;' I have been looking forward to a world where I shall get compensation for my cross as itself a present glory. Teach me the glory of my cross; teach me the value of my 'thorn.' Show me that I have climbed to Thee by the path of pain. Show me that my tears have made my rainbow.

Even when you tear its petals off one after another, the rose keeps laughing and doesn’t bend in pain. “Why should I be afflicted because of a thorn? It is the thorn which taught me how to laugh.” Whatever you lost through fate, be certain that it saved you from pain.

A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.

If I Separated Myself From You . . . I Would Turn Entirely Thorn!

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

I am a thorn in the side of designers.

Mandelstam - his gift and the untamable nature of it - was like a thorn in Stalin's brain.

Flower and thorn are in the same stem.

The thorn keeps us from over-inflating

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Wherein is the use of getting rid of one thorn out of many?

Better one thorn pluck'd out than all remain.

When we are dead; rugs are no richer than a quick-thorn bed.

If you're not a thorn in somebody's side, you aren't doing Christianity right.

While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.

Rose is in red, But never in blue, Sharp as a thorn, Fights like one too.

Our dearest hopes in pangs are born, The kingliest Kings are crown'd with thorn.

Things are simply the way they are. They don't give us suffering. Like a thorn: Does a sharp thorn give us suffering? No. It's simply a thorn. It doesn't give suffering to anybody. If we step on it, we suffer immediately. Why do we suffer? Because we stepped on it. So the suffering comes from us.

The modest Rose puts forth a thorn,The humble sheep a threat'ning horn:While the Lily white shall in love delight,Nor a thorn nor a threat stain her beauty bright.

There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.

When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.

When we press the thorn to our chest we know, we understand, and still we do it.

The merry year is born Like the bright berry from the naked thorn.

The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.

It is better to be a thorn in the side of a friend than an echo.

What you have despised in yourself as a thorn opens into a rose.

White dew- one drop on each thorn

The appeal of writing a romance was that I'd never written one before the The Thorn and The Blossom.

Nature shaped the claw to trap, and the tooth to kill, but the thorn...the thorn's only purpose is to hurt.

A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

Every lion has a time in their life when a thorn has got to them at one point.

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.