No Rose Without A Thorn Quotes

#1. We are not immortal ourselves, my friend; how can we expect our enjoyments to be so? We have no rose without its thorn; no pleasure without alloy. It is the law of our existence; and we must acquiesce.

Thomas Jefferson

#2. 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.

Robert Herrick

#3. He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

Andre Gide

#4. The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.

Kenneth Hare

#5. When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.

Ovid

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

Gene Tierney

#7. Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

John Milton

#8. But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Robert Herrick

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

Groucho Marx

#10. I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.

Gabriela Mistral

#11. 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.

Rumi

#12. Nah, if she's the rose, he can be her thorn." Calo snapped his fingers. "The Thorn of Camorr! Now, that's got some shine to it!"
"That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#13. Brother, stand the pain. Escape the poison of your impulses. The sky will bow to your beauty, if you do. Learn to light the candle. Rise with the sun. Turn away from the cave of your sleeping. That way a thorn expands to a rose.

Rumi

#14. Don't run away from grief, o' soul/ Look for the remedy inside the pain/ because the rose came from the thorn/ and the ruby came from a stone.

Rumi

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

Ovid

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

Rumi

#17. Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

Martin Amis

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

Saadi

#19. Salon prepared for you and Miss Thorn to enjoy tea.

Rose Gordon

#20. I seem to be on a road, walking, greeting the hedgerows, the rose-hips, the apples and thorn. I seem to be on a road, walking, familiar with neighbors, high-handed with cattle, smelling the sea, and alone. Already, I know the names of things. I can kick a stone.

Annie Dillard

#21. Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn.

Vinita Kinra

#22. Jo? Look at me. I'm about to do something really f**king stupid. When I do this, I need you to remember three words for me. Omni rosae spina." Thorn
"Every rose has its thorn?" Jo
"Good, you understand Latin. Yes. Commit those words to memory in the event I lose control. Okay?" Thorn

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#23. We have no rose without its thorn; it is the law of our existence; it is the condition annexed to all our pleasures.

Stephanie Dray

#24. Have you ever seen a donkey smelling a beautiful rose? Donkeys aren't interested in roses, they like thorn bushes or watermelon rinds!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. A stranger's rose is but a thorn.

I.L. Peretz

#26. Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.

John Hay

#27. Sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.

Suzannah Daniels

#28. Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

Ovid

#29. No rose without a thorn. Yes, but many a thorn without a rose.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#30. Praise is the beauty of a Christian. What wings are to a bird, what fruit is to the tree, what the rose is to the thorn, that is praise to a child of God.

Charles Spurgeon

#31. It's not wasting time when you sit and look upon the roses, they remind you, every rose has a thorn!

F.J. Namini

#32. Water and stone
Flesh and bone
Night and morn
Rose and thorn
Tree and wind
Heart and mind

Juliet Marillier

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

Arthur Schopenhauer

#34. Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.

Alexander Pope