Thorn
A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.
Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Crataegus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.
Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.
The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter /, capital form /. It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.
To prick, as with a thorn.
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Thorn Quotations
There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills.
Buddha
One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.
James Russell Lowell
The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a terrible thorn in their side.
Donald Trump
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emile M. Cioran
I don't think I'm a thorn in the industry, I'm just another part of it.
Neil Young
The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.
Ovid
The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
Saadi
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
I'm a liability to them - I'm a woman, I'm empowered, I'm an artist. I've had executives who can't come to my shows they're so scared of me. I've been a thorn in many people's sides just by existing.
Alanis Morisette
To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
But he that dares not grasp the thorn Should never crave the rose.
Anne Bronte
So sweet love seemed that April morn. When first we kissed beside the thorn, So strangely sweet, it was not strange We thought that love could never change.
Robert Bridges
I never found either this or the Northern Shrike return to such prey for food. I have seen them alight on the same thorn bush afterwards, but never made any use of this kind of food.
John Bachman
Having done something like The Thorn Birds gives you enormous longevity. You can keep picking and choosing the roles for a bit longer.
Rachel Ward
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.
Martin Amis
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Thorn Translations
thorn in Danish is torn
thorn in Dutch is doorn
thorn in Finnish is piikki
thorn in German is Dorns, Dorn, Dorn
thorn in Italian is spina
thorn in Portuguese is espinho
thorn in Spanish is espina
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