Top 67 Rose And Thorn Quotes
#1. The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.
Saadi
#2. Wherever we go, life and death, rose and thorn, light and darkness will be there waiting all together for us!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#3. Water and stone
Flesh and bone
Night and morn
Rose and thorn
Tree and wind
Heart and mind
Juliet Marillier
#4. He stepped back and threw his arms out.
"I'm always crazy around you Rose. Here, I'm going to write an impromptu poem for you."
He tipped his head back and shouted to the sky:
"Rose is in red
But never in blue
Sharp as a thorn
Fights like one too.
Richelle Mead
#5. While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.
James Montgomery
#6. But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
#7. I felt as though my mind and heart had been dragged through a thicket of rose bushes and caught on every little thorn.
Laura Lam
#8. Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.
Kelly Rossi
#9. 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.
William Blake
#10. A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.
Anthony Liccione
#11. Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.
Cristen Rodgers
#12. Some people are near- or farsighted - I'm thorn-sighted. The thorns on the rose are in really sharp definition for me, the rose petals a little fuzzier.
Danny Meyer
#13. The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
Aberjhani
#14. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
Idries Shah
#15. Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect.
Lynetta Halat
#16. And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.
Ovid
#17. Patience is not sitting and waiting, it is foreseeing. It is looking at the thorn and seeing the rose, looking at the night and seeing the day. Lovers are patient and know that the moon needs time to become full.
Rumi
#18. In the embers shining bright
A garden grows for thy delight,
With roses yellow, red, and white.
But, O my child, beware, beware!
Touch not the roses growing there,
For every rose a thorn doth bear.
Richard Watson Gilder
#19. Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
Alexander Pope
#20. The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose ...
Samuel Ibn Naghrillah
#21. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
#22. Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
Sathya Sai Baba
#23. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
LeCrae
#24. A thorn defends the rose, harming only those who would steal the blossom.
Anonymous
#25. A little while the rose, And after that the thorn; An hour of dewy morn, And then the glamour goes. Ah, love in beauty born, A little while the rose!
Henry Van Dyke
#26. By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists:;? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.
Felix Adler
#27. The rose saith in the dewy morn,
I am most fair;
Yet all my loveliness is born
Upon a thorn.
Christina Rossetti
#28. Maybe, it is not the thorn on the rose that we should see, but the beauty of the gesture.
Shannon L. Alder
#29. Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose - easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.
Donald Grant Mitchell
#30. Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast!
For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself.
Rumi
#32. I was a thorn rushing to be with a rose, vinegar blending with honey ... Then I found some dirt to make an ointment that would honor my soul ... Love says, You are right, but don't claim these changes. Remember, I am wind. You are an ember I ignite.
Rumi
#33. It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.
H R Brock
#35. Every rose has its thorn. Just like every night has its dawn. Just like every cowboy sings a sad, sad song. Every rose has it's thorn.
Poison
#36. When the roses are gone, nothing is left but the thorn.
Ovid
#37. 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
#38. The bee, though it finds every rose has a thorn, comes back loaded with honey from his rambles; and why should not other tourists do the same?
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
#39. 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
#40. He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
Andre Gide
#41. The puritan through life's sweet garden goes to pluck the thorn and cast away the rose.
Kenneth Hare
#42. When a rose dies, a thorn is left behind.
Ovid
#43. A romantic, I think, picks the rose and is careless with the thorn.
Gene Tierney
#44. Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
John Milton
#46. Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.
Groucho Marx
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. It's not wasting time when you sit and look upon the roses, they remind you, every rose has a thorn!
F.J. Namini
#53. What you have despised in yourself
as a thorn opens into a rose.
Rumi
#54. Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis
#55. The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi
#56. Salon prepared for you and Miss Thorn to enjoy tea.
Rose Gordon
#57. 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
#58. Love and hatred belong to the same plant: one is rose, the other is thorn.
Vinita Kinra
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#63. Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you feel.
John Hay
#64. Sometimes we can't enjoy the bloom of a rose because we're too busy crying over being pricked by the thorn.
Suzannah Daniels
#65. Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
Ovid
#67. 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
