Quotes about Thorns

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
-Voltaire

"Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her."
-William Shakespeare

"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."
-Charles Dickens

"Roses fall, but the thorns remain."
-Dutch Proverb

"No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown."
-William Penn

"A lot of our tips we don't even pay money out because it's just good citizens. They just want these thorns out of their neighborhoods."
-Bob Noyes

"Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine."
-Dr. Richard Selzer

"If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot."
-Italian Proverb

"You have it in your power to make your days on Earth a path of flowers, instead of a path of thorns."
-Sri Sathya Sai Baba

"The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns."
-George Santayana

"I had to drag the cross down the street with a crown of thorns on my head."
-Jeff Neary

"As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters."
-Solomon Ibn Gabirol Ben Judah

"The motto was "Pax," but the word was set in a circle of thorns."
-Rumer Godden

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

"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."
-Ellen Key