Quotes of Thorn - somelinesforyou

“ If unix is the face of the future I wanna go back to quill pens. ”

- Gene Spafford

“ Untilled ground, however rich, will bring forth thistles and thorns; so also the mind of man. ”

- St. Therese of Lisieux

“ Some people get angry because God put thorns on roses, while others praise him for putting roses among thorns. ”

- Anonymous

“ You can complain because roses have have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ”

- Ziggy

“ You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. ”

- Ziggy Marley

“ I can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it. ”

- Kenfield J. Morley

“ There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker. ”

- Charles M. Schulz

“ Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ”

- Voltaire

“ There is no more steely barb than that of the Infinite. ”

- Charles Baudelaire

“ No traveler e'er reached that blest abode who found not thorns and briers in his road. ”

- William Cowper

“ If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears. ”

- Isaac Hayes

“ The motto was Pax, but the word was set in a circle of thorns. ”

- Rumer Godden

“ My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn. ”

- Louis Adamic

“ And there shall be no more a pricking brier unto the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them, that despised them; and they shall know that I am the Lord GOD. ”

- Bible

“ The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ His hair stood upright like porcupine quills. ”

- Giovanni Boccaccio

“ Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius' crater for an inkstand! ”

- Herman Melville

“ I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates. ”

- Leonard Cohen

“ Diplomacy: The business of handling a porcupine without disturbing the quills. ”

- Unknown

“ Apparently, he was not the sharpest quill on the porcupine, if you get my drift. ”

- Dave Barry

“ Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket? ”

- Unknown

“ God, please save me from your followers! ”

- Unknown

“ Blasphemy is a victimless crime. ”

- Unknown

“ Mellifluous Shakespeare, whose enchanting Quill Commandeth Mirth or Passion, was but Will. ”

- Thomas Heywood

“ I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill. ”

- Christopher Plummer

“ No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. ”

- William Penn

“ One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ”

- James Russell Lowell

“ Leave her to heaven And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, To prick and sting her. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns. ”

- John Milton
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