#thorn

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#thorn #warning #whole #wilderness #worth

In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination. ↗

— Colleen McCullough

#birds #either #else #ever #find

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them. ↗

— Hugh Miller

#opportunities #problems #them #thorns

Virtue rejects facility to be her companion. She requires a craggy, rough and thorny way. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#facility #her #rejects #requires #rough

The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses. ↗

— Ovid

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And he repents in thorns that sleeps in beds of roses. ↗

— Francis Quarles

#roses #sleeps #thorns

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not. ↗

— Matthew Sweet

#came #couple #couple times #gave #i

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together. ↗

— Saadi

#linked #rose #sorrow #thorn #together

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#another #become #jest #mischief #plants

The profession of the writer has its thorns about which the reader does not dream. ↗

— Henryk Sienkiewicz

#does #dream #profession #reader #thorns