Top 25 Horns Quotes of 50 - Page 2

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

Rose, Thorns, Honey

Isaac Watts (1743). “Horæ Lyricæ: Poems, Chiefly of the Lyric Kind, in Three Books, Sacred : I. To Devotion and Piety, II. To Virtue, Honour and Friendship, III. To the Memory of the Dead”, p.7

I shouldn't toot my own horn, but he who doth not toot his own horn alloweth it to remain untooteth.

Alben W. Barkley

Motivational, Horns, My Own

Do not be tempted by English roses. Their beauty fades, but their thorns are forever.

Libba Bray

Rose, Forever, Thorns

Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

My life is part humor, part roses, part thorns.

Bret Michaels

Rose, Thorns, Life Is

Water the fruit trees and don’t water the thorns.

Rumi

Water, Tree, Thorns

A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Rose, Crowns, Thorns

The rose does not bloom without thorns. True, but would that the thorns did not outlive the rose.

Charles Francis Richter

Rose, Doe, Thorns

You never toot your own horn.

Zakk Wylde

Horny, Horns

To wear the crown of peace, you must wear the crown of thorns.

Gordon Lightfoot

Crowns, Thorns, Crown Of Thorns

Song: Sit Down Young Stranger

There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

Marquis de Sade

Rose, Vices, Thorns

The best rose-bush, after all, is not that which has the fewest thorns, but that which bears the finest roses.

Henry Van Dyke

Rose, Thorns, Bears

Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Fisherman's Luck”, p.156, Wildside Press LLC

You cannot show people only the petals and not the thorns. It's not fair to them.

Bethenny Frankel

People, Thorns, Petals

She who loves roses must be patient and not cry out when she is pierced by thorns.

Olga Broumas

Wise, Rose, Thorns

Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr

We should serve others without any expectations whatsoever. When others throw thorns at us, we should be able to throw flowers back at them.

Mata Amritanandamayi

Flower, Expectations, Thorns

Swami Jnanamritananda Puri, Amma, Sri Mata Amritanandamayi Devi (2014). “Eternal Wisdom: Upadeshamritam Volume 2”, p.166, M A Center

Upon my weary heart was showered smiles, plaudits and flowers, but beyond them I saw troubles and thorns innumerable.

Jefferson Davis

Flower, Heart, Thorns

Jefferson Davis, Hudson Strode (1966). “Private Letters, 1823-1889”, New York : Harcourt, Brace & World

From fear of the unknown, both horns and wings have grown.

Chris Murphy

Wings, Fear Of The Unknown, Horns

...the habitual dualist's solution to the problem of dualism: to solve the dilemma by chopping off one of the horns.

Alan Watts

Problem, Chopping, Horns

Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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

Voltaire

Acceptance, Garden, Thorns

Letter to Pierre-Joseph Luneau de Boisjermain on October 21, 1769. "Oeuvres Complètes de Voltaire: Correspondance". Book published by Garnier frères, Paris, Volume XIV, letter #7692, p. 478, 1882.

I will soothe you and heal you, I will bring you roses. I too have been covered with thorns.

Rumi

Compassion, Rose, Thorns

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

Gena Showalter

Bulls, Harpies, Horns

Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.168, HQN Books

By what sort of experience are we led to the conviction that spirit exists? On the whole, by searching, painful experience. The rose Religion grows on a thorn-bush, and we must not be afraid to have our fingers lacerated by the thorns if we would pluck the rose.

Felix Adler

Painful Experiences, Rose, Thorns

"Life and Destiny". Book by Felix Adler, 1903.