How Quote by John Burroughs

How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust…

— John Burroughs

We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society.

— Abraham Lincoln

What does it avail you, if of many thorns only one be removed

— Horace

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Untilled soil, however fertile it may be, will bear thistles and thorns; so it is with man's mind.

— Teresa of Avila

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

The most beautiful flowers have the sharpest thorns ...

— Ritu Ghatourey

Be like a cactus that gives beautiful flowers, yet it has sharp thorns that could hurt people if they are not careful enough.

— Ahmed Shahyn

Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden.

— Voltaire

If you desire to blossom like a rose in the garden,you have to learn the art of adjusting with the thorns.

— Ani

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor…

— Washington Irving

If you don't sow your field what harvest other than thorns and weeds can you anticipate?

— Mehmet Murat Ildan