Top 92 Quotes About Roses Thorns
#1. The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.
Abraham Lincoln
#2. I'd rather let you cover all my roads with thorns than with dead roses.
Nema Al-Araby
#3. Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#4. But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
#5. Though roses have thorns, they are still worth more than daises.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#6. His short black hair gleamed like a raven's feathers, off-setting his pale skin and blue eyes so deep they were violet, even in the firelight.
Sarah J. Maas
#7. His throat bobbled. His kiss that time was deep and thorough, unhurried and intent.
I let the dawn creep inside me, let it grow with each movement of his lips and brush of his tongue against mine. Tears pricked beneath my closed eyes.
It was the happiest moment of my life.
Sarah J. Maas
#8. Why are roses kept for their blossoms rather than shunned for their thorns?
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#9. Once you decide to grow out the roses from your heart, and let it spread the roots all over. you should also start to learn to handle the thorns that grow out of their stem.
Akshay Vasu
#10. Love for one another is built on the actions we take. Words that are said, are used for short comfort; but little do we know lies can be hidden in the riddle. Tread carefully through the puddle of roses for there, thorns await.
Ochir Napoleoni
#12. Let us try to see things from their better side: You complain about seeing thorny rose bushes; Me, I rejoice and give thanks to the gods That thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#13. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
#14. Beware of those who look like rose, for even roses have thorns.
Jean Sasson
#15. It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.
Marquis De Sade
#17. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
Idries Shah
#18. 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
#19. If you don't feel the pointed things in life, you'll soon take the soft ones for granted.
John Everson
#20. You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.
Benjamin Franklin
#21. Some women are like roses
Ohh how beautiful you blossom
Yet have too many thorns to ever be held.
Jasmine Mans
#23. Rose LeBlanc got her name for a reason. She was full of fucking thorns. She was so beautiful - so ridiculously, unbelievably alluring - that just like real roses, she grew little spikes to protect herself. Because everyone wanted to have her.
L.J. Shen
#25. There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
Marquis De Sade
#26. It had been one of the most terrifying experiences of my life, and I'd swallowed half the pond in the process, but I'd gotten the gist of it, managed to conquer my blind panic and terror and trust myself.
Sarah J. Maas
#27. If I offer you the moon on a string, will you give me a kiss, too?" - Lucien Vanserra
Sarah J. Maas
#29. Only last week I went out among the thorns and said
to the wild roses:
deny me not,
but suffer my devotion.
Then, all afternoon, I sat among them.
Mary Oliver
#30. If it grieves you," he said, the words caressing my bones, "then I don't think it's absurd at all.
Sarah J. Maas
#31. Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
Daisaku Ikeda
#32. Everyone will find what he's looking for. Nothing pleases everyone: this man gathers thorns, that one roses.
Petronius
#34. My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.
Bret Michaels
#35. They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
Martin Luther
#36. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses.
Tom Wilson
#37. Live in Thorns but always enchant the hearts with your fragrance
Alok Jagawat
#38. Today, just take time to smell the roses, enjoy those little things about your life, your family, spouse, friends, job. Forget about the thorns -the pains and problems they cause you - and enjoy life
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#39. Knowledge is a Bed of Roses; for Every Beautiful Flower, there are a Dozen Thorns to Match
Joshua Caleb
#40. Let us make our way through these low valleys of the humble and little virtues. We shall see in them the roses amid the thorns, charity that shows its beauty among interior and exterior afflictions, the lilies of purity.
Francis De Sales
#43. She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.
Olga Broumas
#44. Red roses symbolizes love. Thorns will hurt you and red roses consists of thorns.
Monika Ramzy
#45. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
LeCrae
#46. After the winter of thorns came spring. The roses would bloom again. But if she lost Mr. Morland, she'd be chopping down the whole bush. Killing the thorns, to be sure, but killing the beautiful roses too. Just because she couldn't always see the flowers didn't mean they were not still there.
Julie Daines
#48. Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery.
Kerri Maniscalco
#49. How many times have answers been so simple and yet someone is determined to take the path of thorns instead of roses?" "It's not earned." "That's a very human thing to say." "An inclination I can't help." "It's not about things that are earned, but just things as they are.
Roshani Chokshi
#50. I like roses, ones with sharp thorns. Pretty to look at but hurts to touch, that's like me.
Kangin
#51. The words that I will have to find for that explanation will be sharp and they will hurt, much worse than the thorns of roses.
Antonia Michaelis
#52. As sure as roses will have thorns, love will bring you pain
Teresa Bodwell
#53. Roses have thorns. That's the price of roses. When you start to forget that, that's when things go wrong.
T. Kingfisher
#54. For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.
Henry Miller
#55. The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#56. The thorns, ruthless in their protection of the beauty they upheld, tore at my skin, bleeding me like a vampire's victim and no doubt loving every moment of it. The vines snaked around my hands and arms trying to cut the circulation of blood.
Alistair Cross
#57. two feet tall,
the crimson-budded roses,
their young thorns
tender in
the soft spring rain
Shiki Masaoka
#59. Then, like a shimmering disk too rich and clear to be described, the sun slipped over the horizon and lined everything with gold. It was like seeing the world being born, and we were the sole witnesses.
Sarah J. Maas
#61. And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Francis Quarles
#62. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses,' big surprise, was inspired by music. By actually listening to the 'Princess Mononoke' soundtrack.
Sarah J. Maas
#63. Some people grumble that roses have thorns; I am grateful that thorns have roses.
Alphonse Karr
#64. It is said that every life has its roses and thorns; there seemed, however, to have been a misadventure or mistake in Stephen's case, whereby somebody else had become possessed of his roses, and he had become possessed of somebody else's thorns in addition to his own.
Charles Dickens
#65. Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.
Libba Bray
#67. You can't gather much if you won't go on risk expedition. Leaders never fear the thorns; they'll still go in for the beautiful roses no matter the number of pricks they'll get.
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flickered to life in his eyes. "Always," he promised, kissing my brow, his wings now enveloping me completely. "Always.
Sarah J. Maas
#69. Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
Isaac Watts
#70. What one approves , another scorns, And thus his nature each discloses: You find the rosebush full of thorns, I find the thornbush full of roses.
Arthur Guiterman
#71. Don't act like you Galantes are all roses," he replied. "You've got more thorns than you do petals, princess." Princess
J.M. Darhower
#72. Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
Vincent De Paul
#74. I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing it on certain body areas and I might come faster.
Sarah J. Maas
#75. The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.
Henry Van Dyke
#76. they can't say I didn't love you they can't understand that some people love roses for the thorns and the way sometimes we need to be cut to feel alive and why I could walk away so calmly they said you were dead and remind me from time to time
Mark Abukoff
#78. Life is a dream of roses and the thorns prick us back to reality
Daljit Ranajee
#79. Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.
Billy Graham
#80. When you go to a garden, do you look at thorns or flowers? Spend more time with the roses and jasmine.
Rumi
#81. 'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'
Sarah J. Maas
#82. Remember, a person who cannot be angry cannot be loving. The roses grow only with the thorns.
Osho
#84. With thorns in the inner world there will always be roses in the outer world, in law-able compensation.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#85. You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is also thorns.
Alan Keyes
#86. I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!
John Pawson
#87. I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
Rumi
#88. People complain because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses because I have finally learned not to pick them the next time around.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. Mother used to say, "Roses have both petals and thorns, my dark flower. You needn't believe something weak because it appears delicate. Show the world your bravery." Mother
Kerri Maniscalco
#90. It is only by enlarging the scope of one's tastes and one's fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life's thorns
Marquis De Sade
#91. 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.
Lee Child
#92. Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness. "I've always loved them for their beauty and their scent, but--"
"It's because of their thorns." His muscles tensed at her touch. "Because there's more to them than first meets the eye.
Renee Ahdieh
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