Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
Religion is passionate, reckless, destructive, idol-smashing. It's a martyr burning at the stake. It's a crown of thorns and a cross. — Martha Ostenso Copy Share Image
Bitter love, a violet with it's crown of thorns in a thicet of spiky passions, spear of sorrow, corolla of rage: how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't be sad that roses have thorns. Be glad that thorns have Roses. Today's the day I worried about yesterday and it… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
There are people who plant thorns in their garden expecting to gather roses. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort! — John Vianney Copy Share Image
Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Nobody’s going to save you. No one’s going to cut you down cut the thorns around you. No one’s going to storm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not a single loophole or curveball or open trench to fall into for the man or woman who walks the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
“I’m alive,” he groaned. “But I’m not doing a very good job of it.” — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
“Roses and thorns are parts of the same plant. Somehow though, some people are concerned mainly about the roses. The rose is… — ST221 Copy Share Image
How are you to meet the swarm of foolish attachments, triflings, and undesirable inclinations which beset you? By turning sharply away, and… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I'm slow in and to love; however once and if I decide on you, you are permanently lodged in my heart, and… — Maisie Peters Copy Share Image
My faultless breast the furnace is, the fuel wounding thorns;Love is the fire and sighs the smoke, the ashes shame and scorns;The… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand,… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable. — Jefferson Davis Copy Share Image
“The magical force that had sundered everything in the castle had occasionally made some very odd choices in its destruction—Sand found a… — Merrie Haskell Copy Share Image
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns; I am thankful that thorns have roses. — Alphonse Karr Copy Share Image
Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
In Christ we see the strength of achievement, and the strength of endurance. He moved with a calm majesty, like the sun.… — Mark Hopkins Copy Share Image
Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend. — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
