Briars Quotes
22 quotes by 16 authors
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
— Emily Bronte
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We are all making a crown for Jesus out of these daily lives of ours, either a crown of golden, divine love, studded with gems…
— Aimee Semple McPherson
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Perseverance gives power to weakness, and opens to poverty the world's wealth. It spreads fertility over the barren landscape, and buds the choicest flowers and…
— Samuel Griswold Goodrich
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Please don't throw me in dat briar patch!
— Joel Chandler Harris
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Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand…
— Charles Kuralt
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WEEDS AND NETTLES, BRIARS AND THORNS, HAVE THRIVEN UNDER YOUR SHADOW, DISSETTLEMENT AND DIVISION, DISCONTENTMENT AND DISSATISFACTION, TOGETHER WITH REAL DANGERS TO THE WHOLE.
— Oliver Cromwell
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The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on…
— Washington Irving
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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, "Why…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Oh no! Don't drag us away from Antartica and take us to the playground of the rich and famous! Not that briar patch! -Max
— James Patterson
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Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, But which will bloom most constantly? The…
— Emily Dickinson
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And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')
— William Blake
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Don't let him upset you," Niko told the four softly. "He's old and he's frightened." "You're as old as him, and you aren't scared of…
— Tamora Pierce
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At last Niko dropped his hands, and opened his eyes. His perfect tree illusion solidified and settled. "Very nice," said Briar with approval. "Couldn't have…
— Tamora Pierce
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A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young…
— Jane Yolen
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He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own. - Daja referring to Briar in their first…
— Tamora Pierce
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Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?
— Tamora Pierce
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Evvy: "Is she going to eat Jooba-hooba? She looks like she's going to bite him, at least." Briar: "No — if she bit him, he'd…
— Tamora Pierce
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Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that…
— Tamora Pierce
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Preserve me from such cordiality! It is like handling briar-roses and may-blossoms - bright enough to the eye, and outwardly soft to the touch, but…
— Anne Bronte
Who Wrote These Briars Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 22 Briars Quotes as follows: