Thorns Quotes - Page 9

• If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.

  Cennino Cennini

  Flower, Men, Hands

  "Il libro dell' arte".

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• 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.

  George Meredith

  Valentine, Paws, Naked

  George Meredith (1922). “The Complete Works of George Meredith”, p.8366, Library of Alexandria

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• Misanthropy is a suit of armor lined with thorns.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Suits Of Armor, Misanthropy, Armor

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1994). “Aphorisms”, Ariadne Press (CA)

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• For a metaphysical treat stop at the Big Sur Inn, which is also a haven for stray cats and dogs. Life along the South Coast is just a bed of roses, with a few thorns and nettles interspersed.

  Henry Miller

  Dog, Travel, Cat

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• I was astonished to find that the positions my grandfather had defended were now overgrown and entangled with trees and thorns. I suppose I had developed a sense of reverence for the locations he described in his memoirs and letters - the forts and the high emplacements. I had expected them to have been preserved in some way.

  Chris Cleave

  Tree, Grandfather, Location

  "'We Don't Know Our Hearts Until Life Puts Us to the Test'--Chris Cleave on 'Everyone Brave Is Forgiven'". Interview With Erin Kodicek, www.amazonbookreview.com. May 31, 2016.

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• I don't know if I was a poseur - I really did love metal, always - but I gave a lot of other things a chance. I wanted to meet, um, girls, so I would check out Depeche Mode. But mostly I wanted stuff with pentagrams and crowns of thorns on it.

  Brian Posehn

  Girl, Crowns, Stuff

  "Random Rules: Brian Posehn". Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. October 2, 2006.

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• 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

  Flower, Memorable, Thinking

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.62, The Planet

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• It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

  Marquis de Sade

  Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

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• Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Cutting, People, Ignorant

  "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac". Comic book by Jhonen Vasquez, 1995 - 1997.

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• 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

  David Levithan

  Sleep, Order, Tiny

  John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.150, Penguin

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• You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Marriage, Fear, Wife

  Benjamin Franklin (2013). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.41, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Crowns, Pieces

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1973) vol. 2, ch. 13

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• A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

  John Milton

  Night, Historical, Care

  John Milton (1854). “Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston”, p.425

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• I think most American churchgoers are the soil that chokes the seed because of all the thorns.  Thorns are anything that distracts us from God.  When we want God and a bunch of other stuff, then that means we have thorns in our soil.  A relationship with God simply cannot grow when money, sins, activities, favorite sports teams, addictions, or commitments are piled on top of it.

  Francis Chan

  God, Sports, Religious

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.45, David C Cook

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• The man who preaches truth and applies it to the lives of his hearers will feel the nails and the thorns. He will lead a hard life, but a glorious one. May God raise up many such prophets. The church needs them badly.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Hard Life, Church

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• In 1840 I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns. I now leave that bed which has afforded me little rest, and eagerly seek repose in the quiet enjoyments of rural life.

  John Tyler

  Bed, Rural Life, Littles

  Farewell remarks, 1845.

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• You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.

  William Jennings Bryan

  Government, Gold, Bankers

  Speech at Democratic National Convention, Chicago, Ill., 8 July 1896. In an earlier speech in the House of Representatives, 22 Dec. 1894, Bryan had said: "I shall not help crucify mankind upon a cross of gold. I shall not aid in pressing down upon the bleeding brow of labor this crown of thorns."

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• O! Lover, Enjoyment on the soft body of a lotus is always risky and inconsistent because its route is always surrounded by thorns.

  Manmohan Acharya

  Lotuses, Body, Lovers

  "Gita Milindam (Song of the Bumblebee)". Book by Manmohan Acharya, July 12, 2010.

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• Always grow flowers, as that will make your way full of flowers. Never grow thorns, as that will make your way thorny. Never want to target someone on an arrow. You may become the target of that arrow. Never make a well in the way of someone. As you may pass by that way sometime.

  Rahman Baba

  Flower, Arrows, Target

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• Duty, though set about by thorns, may still be made a staff supporting even while it tortures. Cast it away, and, like the prophet's wand, it changes to a snake.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Snakes, May, Prophet

  Douglas William Jerrold (1851). “St. Giles and St. James”, p.277

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• O youth! thou often tearest thy wings against the thorns of voluptuousness.

  Victor Hugo

  Wings, Youth

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• 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.

  Washington Irving

  Art, Struggle, Adversity

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• If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Mean, Age, Crowns

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• Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.

  Francis Quarles

  Sweet, Sleep, Bed Of Roses

  Francis Quarles (1859). “Emblems, divine and moral, with a sketch of the life and times of the author”, p.23

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• Dawn crept over the Downs like a sinister white animal, followed by the snarling cries of a wind eating its way between the black boughs of the thorns. The wind was the furious voice of this sluggish animal light that was baring the dormers and mullions and scullions of Cold Comfort Farm.

  Stella Gibbons

  Animal, Wind, Voice

  Stella Gibbons (1977). “Cold comfort farm”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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