I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.
I know him, February's thrush, And loud at eve he valentines On sprays that paw the naked bush Where soon will sprout the thorns and bines.
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.
He who would lay hands upon us will encounter thorns and barbs!
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.
Be thankful for the thorns and thistles, which keep you from being in love with this world, and becoming an idolater.
Your thorns are the best part of you.
If thou has a bundle of thorns in thy lot, there is no need to sit down on it.
Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assuduities of art, with which it would rear dulness to maturity, and to glory in the vigor and luxuriance of her chance productions. She scatters the seeds of genius to the winds, and though some may perish among the stony places of the world, and some may be choked by the thorns and brambles of early adversity, yet others will now and then strike root even in the clefts of the rock, struggle bravely up into sunshine, and spread over their sterile birthplace all the beauties of vegetation.
I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.
Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
I am made Hand of the King which gives me an enormous amount of power, which I use quite ruthlessly - but skilfully - and Dame Diana Rigg joins us [playing political mastermind the Queen of Thorns] and we have a couple of really good sparring moments.
I am thankful that thorns have roses.
Be grateful for challenges because. . . Had there been no difficulties and no thorns in the way, then [each woman and] man would have been in his primitive state and no progress made in civilisation and mental culture.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
You know what’s a great metaphor for love? Sleeping beauty. Because you have to plow through this incredible thicket of thorns in order to get to beauty, and even then, when you get there, you still have to wake her up. — Tiny Cooper
The honey is guarded by bees. . The rose has thorns. . To enjoy the sweet & beautiful you can NOT be cowardly.