No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.” — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The gardener uses both roses in the flowerbed and thorns in making fences. — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
This is what an excellent teacher does; he does not follow his disciples' fancy everywhere, but leads them to his own mind,… — Saint John Chrysostom Copy Share Image
“The shrine I prayed at not to go to university,” Sand said. “I guess your prayer was answered,” Perrotte said. Sand strongly… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for flowers. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
You can't build marriage on a foundation of selfish hedonism, because that would be to promise people only roses, and marriage is… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
I have seen one shrike occupy himself for hours in sticking up on thorns, a number of small fishes that the fishermen… — John Bachman Copy Share Image
Entrance into the Old Ways begins with the pricking of a finger with a rose thorn, which produces a drop of blood.… — Raven Grimassi Copy Share Image
I plucked a honeysuckle where The hedge on high is quick with thorn, And climbing for the prize, was torn, And fouled… — Dante Gabriel Rossetti Copy Share Image
“Saint Melor’s father was Saint Meliau.” “Was everyone in Bertaèyn a saint, back in the day?” “Everyone who didn’t murder anyone, maybe,”… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
God put thorns around the Love's door to stop anyone who's not a Lover from entering. — Rumi Copy Share Image
