There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. — Gerald Massey Copy Share Image
The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. — Henryk Sienkiewicz Copy Share Image
Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between… — Stella Gibbons Copy Share Image
Not every thought is a flower; some are thorns. But while a flower may make you fall asleep and too see dreams,… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but… — Charles Dance Copy Share Image
Do grant, oh my God, that when my lips approach Yours to kiss You, I may taste the gall that was given… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The strong hands of God twisted the crown of thorns into a crown of glory; and in such hands we are safe. — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! — Elizabeth of Hungary Copy Share Image
WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO… — Oliver Cromwell Copy Share Image
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the seraphs, the misinformed, simple, noble-winged seraphs, envied. Look at this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We must not hope to be mowers, And to gather the ripe gold ears, Unless we have first been sowers And water… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Free from passion and desire, you have stripped the thorns from the stem. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
Dive deeply into the miracle of life and let the tips of your wings be burnt by the flame, let your feet… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Do not resent your place in the story. Do not imagine yourself elsewhere. Do not close your eyes and picture a world… — N.D. Wilson Copy Share Image
Waking up is unpleasant, you know. You are nice and comfortable in bed. It is irritating to be woken up. That's the… — Anthony de Mello Copy Share Image
