Top 100 Thorn Quotes
#1. Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.
LeCrae
#3. You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can be grateful that thorn bushes have roses.
Tom Wilson
#4. Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn.
William Shakespeare
#5. I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
John Bachman
#6. The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn.
Oscar Wilde
#7. And the old ones were burly people, as strong as bears or wolverines. One of Thorn's stories told how an old one had married a bear by mistake, and neither of them had noticed; their daughter told them about it years later, not at all pleased with them.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#8. The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people's sides all of her life.
Fran Lebowitz
#9. It looks like a typical voodoo sacrifice. (Fang)
Well, slap my ass and call me Sally if you're not bright. (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#10. Not forgiving someone is like not pulling a thorn out of your foot just because you weren't the one to put it there.
Mercedes Lackey
#11. I can tell we're going to get along like Batman and the Joker. (Fang) Just remember one thing, world. I'm the best friend you'll ever have or the last enemy you'll ever make. (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. It's not wasting time when you sit and look upon the roses, they remind you, every rose has a thorn!
F.J. Namini
#13. Lies twist and snarl like ever-growing, thorn-covered vines, Vines that are unavoidable, they grow from anywhere, reaching up to cut you.
Frank Murray
#14. Water and stone
Flesh and bone
Night and morn
Rose and thorn
Tree and wind
Heart and mind
Juliet Marillier
#15. The Labyrinth, a walled garden where humans tortured plants and flowers into growing in straight lines and sharp corners so unnatural that it hurt the mind to see, was east of Thorn's court, on the very edge of the Center Kingdom.
Jon Evans
#16. Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emil Cioran
#17. The longstanding thorn in your side Captain Numos is stupid. In fact, Numos is so dense that I'm surprised he doesn't have his own event horizon.
Jack Campbell
#18. 'Tis spring; come out to ramble
The hilly brakes around,
For under thorn and bramble
About the hollow ground
The primroses are found.
And there's the windflower chilly
With all the winds at play,
And there's the Lenten lily
That has not long to stay
And dies on Easter day.
A.E. Housman
#19. No surname? Or is Thorn it?"
"Thorn is all anyone needs to know about me."
"As in thorn up all our collective nether regions," Devyl muttered.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#20. While rose-buds scarcely show'd their hue, But coyly linger'd on the thorn.
James Montgomery
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. And warns us to use life's beauty as it blooms. The thorn is spurned when the rose has dropped.
Ovid
#24. I'm scared," Nico mumbled. He was fiddling with something - a little metal toy soldier of some kind.
"Stop talking!" Dr. Thorn said. "Face me!
Rick Riordan
#25. If a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too?
a sheep eats whatever it finds
even a flower with thorn?
even a flower with thorns.
then what's the good of thorns?
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#26. Even the most beautiful flower, the rose," he argued, "has the thorn that makes it imperfect.
Lynetta Halat
#27. among roses, be a rose, among thorns, be a thorn
Idries Shah
#28. Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life.
Thomas Cogswell Upham
#29. 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
#31. Life is like licking Honey from a Thorn
Holly Black
#32. The rose and thorn, the treasure and dragon, joy and sorrow, all mingle into one.
Saadi
#33. A thorn in the flesh is nothing compared to a thorn in the conscience.
Adrian Rogers
#34. Why the mad hair, girl?"
"Because damn you," growled Thorn, "that's why.
Joe Abercrombie
#35. 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
#36. It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
Emily Bronte
#37. Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
Rajneesh
#38. A thorn in your side will drive you to find someone or thing to remove it. Therefore, don't hate your enemies. Thank them. Without them, you wouldn't have traveled as far in your life to find peace and happiness.
Shannon L. Alder
#39. A rose, isn't quite as beautiful as it once was, when after its thorn pricks you.
Anthony Liccione
#41. The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
#42. 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
#43. Every rose has it's thorn, but that doesn't mean you have to put up with a ton of pricks.
Kelly Rossi
#44. For years, we'd been the thorn of the neighborhood, the dirty little secret that wasn't so secret. The girls who just wouldn't settle.
Kat Zhang
#45. Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows,
And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close;
Why are we fond of toil and care?
Why choose the rankling thorn to wear?
Johann Martin Usteri
#46. And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know ...
Neil Gaiman
#47. Something inside his chest unlocked
wildly, slowly, a peculiar sort of melting. He was lost. He was the thorn and the thistle, blown upon her breeze. He felt, strangely enough, staring into her yes, like he was going to weep.
Shana Abe
#48. What's this? (Fang)
One for all and all for fun, my friend. You didn't think I'd let you fight demons all on your own, did you? (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#49. What do you want exactly? (Fang)
An end to the mistreatment of small, fluffy dust bunnies. (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#50. 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
#51. To defend his purity, Saint Francis of Assisi rolled in the snow, Saint Benedict threw himself into a thorn bush, and Saint Bernard plunged into an icy pond ... You - what have you done?
Josemaria Escriva
#52. I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.
Alanis Morissette
#53. By the craggy hill-side,
Through the mosses bare,
They have planted thorn-trees
For pleasure here and there.
If any man so daring
As dig them up in spite,
He shall find their sharpest thorns
In his bed at night.
William Allingham
#54. But he who dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
#55. He'll probably pick you up in a limo filled with fucking roses. I hope he sits on a thorn. - Dylan Mead
H.R. Willaston
#56. 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
#57. Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
Oliver Goldsmith
#58. Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams, a thorn will wake you up and make you to think!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#59. There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever.
Sarah MacLean
#60. My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Louis Adamic
#61. The truth hurts like a thorn at first; but in the end it blossoms like a rose ...
Samuel Ibn Naghrillah
#62. What are you doing?" Kody
"Going to ruin Thorn's day." Nick
"Do you think that's wise?" Kody
"Nat at all." Nick
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#63. Her returned in the evening, drier, sharper, a man with a closer kinship with a thorn bush.
Jose Eduardo Agualusa
#64. That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.
Horace Walpole
#65. We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Abraham Lincoln
#66. Oo!" Nico raised his hand. "What about Dr. Thorn? That was awesome how you shot him
with arrows! Is he dead?
Rick Riordan
#67. Discipline trains you to put up with disappointments, every rose has a thorn.
Sathya Sai Baba
#69. At the end of those exhausting sufferings, I turned toward that part of me that loves no one and sought refuge there. There I caught my breath. Then I returned, with head lowered, into the thickets and the thorn.s
Albert Camus
#70. Woe to me if I should prove myself but a halfhearted soldier in the service of my thorn-crowned Captain.
Fidelis Of Sigmaringen
#72. I've been hounded by a reputation of being difficult when really what I'm being is truthful and honest. And I think that's been a thorn in my side.
Gabrielle Anwar
#73. So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges
#74. Party name of Thorn? Tristran of that set?
Neil Gaiman
#75. It was like being pleased by a thorn blush, feeling fond of every prickle.
C.S. Pacat
#77. 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
#78. In my mind the city of Ariel is a thorn in Israel's side and a serious obstacle to peace.
Theodore Bikel
#79. It astounds me that out of all the flowers in the garden, the rose would fall in love with the thorn.
H R Brock
#80. Thorn looks scrawny, but he's wily, and as fast as a ferret.
Erin Hunter
#81. And I flunked anger management the moment I put the counselor through a stone wall. You might want to keep that in mind.
[Thorn]
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#82. In the borough, three boys circled a white camel
that wept because at dawn
there was no other way except through the needle's eye!
Oh cross! Oh, nails! Oh, thorn!
Oh, thorn driven to the bone until the planet rust to pieces!
Federico Garcia Lorca
#84. Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.
Patti Smith
#85. He who holds onto a grudge holds onto a thorn expecting it to prick the one who wronged him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn.
Alexander Pope
#87. Blue eyes glittered. A shock of golden hair - gone. The dust in the air swirled, coalesced into a thorn-twisted Shaman tattoo.
Lilith Saintcrow
#88. The thorn of death falls from heaven, and its myriad forms leave us no room to move.
Kobo Abe
#89. Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.
Andre Maurois
#90. Bitch going to rue the day she decided to unleash Phrixis on the world. (Thorn)
Rue the day? (Fang)
I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. Sometimes it shows. (Thorn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#91. 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
#92. Doubt is like a thorn you can't get a hold on.
Melanie Raabe
#93. For every thorn is just as essential to the longevity of the plant as the blossoms.
S.R. Ford
#94. When fishes flew and forests walked
And figs grew upon thorn,
Some moment when the moon was blood
Then surely I was born.
With monstrous head and sickening cry
And ears like errant wings,
The devil's walking parody
On all four-footed things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#95. Don't you need a fountain of love that won't run dry? You'll find one on a stone-cropped hill outside Jerusalem's walls where Jesus hangs, cross-nailed and thorn-crowned. When you feel unloved, ascend this mount. Meditate long and hard on heaven's love for you.
Max Lucado
#97. Wherever we go, life and death, rose and thorn, light and darkness will be there waiting all together for us!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#99. My last night as Isabella Swan. Tomorrow night, I would be Bella Cullen. Though the whole marriage ordeal was a thorn in my side, I had to admit that I liked the sound of that.
- bella swan
Stephenie Meyer
#100. The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art ...
Robert Burns
