— Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949
And So It Goes.
Song lyrics, Storm Front (1989)
„every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns“
Letzte Aktualisierung 3. Juni 2021. Geschichte
Billy Joel
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„No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.“
— Arthur Schopenhauer German philosopher 1788 - 1860
— Steve Maraboli 1975
Quelle: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 78
Kontext: I've learned that empowered thinking is a choice — a state of mind. It's the ability to enjoy a rose with no mind of the thorn. It's the ability to celebrate a life even though it has passed. It's seeing the flowers even during a rainstorm.
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"The Rose" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Flower of all hue, and without thorn the rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.; "Every rose has it's thorn", Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Hesperides (1648)
„Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn,
And liquid amber drop from every thorn.“
— Alexander Pope, Pastorals
Autumn, line 36.
Pastorals (1709)
„Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose.“
— Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
Quelle: Stray Birds
„A stranger's rose is but a thorn.“
— Isaac Leib Peretz Yiddish language author and playwright 1852 - 1915
In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.
— Felix Adler German American professor of political and social ethics, rationalist, and lecturer 1851 - 1933
Section 7 : Spiritual Progress
Founding Address (1876), Life and Destiny (1913)
Kontext: 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.
„Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.“
— Fernando Pessoa, buch Das Buch der Unruhe des Hilfsbuchhalters Bernardo Soares
Quelle: The Book of Disquiet
„Truths and roses have thorns about them.“
— Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist 1817 - 1862
This is commonly misattributed because Thoreau wrote it in his journal June 14, 1838, but it was not original. This was a popular aphorism in his day, appearing in several collections of proverbs during his lifetime. Its origin is unknown, but it had appeared in print before his birth. E.g., in Joseph Dennie and Asbury Dickins, The Port Folio, vol.2, no.1 (July 1809) http://books.google.com/books?id=YrIRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA431, p. 431; and in Felipe Fernandez, Exercises on the rules of construction of the Spanish language http://books.google.com/books?id=LMIBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA228, 3rd ed. (1811), p. 228.
Misattributed
„There is no rose
Spryngyng in gardeyns, but ther be sum thorn.“
— John Lydgate monk and poet 1370 - 1450
Bk. 1, line 57.
The Fall of Princes
„Romantic: one who professes to prefer the thorns to the rose.“
— Yahia Lababidi 1973
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
— William R. Alger American clergyman and poet 1822 - 1905
"Mussud's Praise of the Camel", p. 257.
Poetry of the Orient, 1893 edition
— Alan Keyes American politician 1950
Party for the President, September 2, 2004. http://renewamerica.us/archives/speeches/04_09_02partypresident.htm.
2009
„But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.“
— Anne Brontë British novelist and poet 1820 - 1849
The Narrow Way (1848)
Kontext: On all her breezes borne
Earth yields no scents like those;
But he, that dares not grasp the thorn
Should never crave the rose.
