| "You've got to take the bitter with the sour." »Samuel Goldwyn |
| "Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle." »Will Durant |
| "No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations." »Cornelius Tacitus |
| "Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox |
| "What is food to one man is bitter poison to others." »Lucretius |
| "Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." »Jewish Proverb |
| "Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." »Chinese Proverb |
| "Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." »Aristotle |
| "Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." »Samuel Johnson |
| "It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death." »Mary Renault |
| "A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future." »Sydney J. Harris |
| "No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal |
| "Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." »Mark Twain |
| "We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter." »Denis Diderot |
| "Love is a driver, bitter and fierce if you fight and resist him, Easy-going enough once you acknowledge his power." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers." »Leigh Hunt |
| "Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material." »F Scott |
| "There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." »Sidonie Gabrielle Colette |
| "There are days when solitude, for someone my age, is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall." »Colette |
| "Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything." »Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. |
| "Yet each man kills the thing he loves,By each let this be heard,Some do it with a bitter look,Some with a flattering word,The koward does it with a kiss,The brave man with a sword" »Oscar Wilde |
| "Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
| "Goodbye, goodbye, I hate the word. Solitude has long since turned brown and withered, sitting bitter in my mouth and heavy in my veins." »R. M. Grenon |
| "Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition." »Charlotte Bronte |
| "Of what significance is one's one existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it." »Albert Einstein |
| "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous -- on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. It is failure that makes people bitter and cruel." »W. Somerset Maugham |
| "For a while I thought history was something bitter old men wrote. But Jack loved history so ... for Jack history was full of heroes." »Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis |
| "Do not pursue what is illusory - property and position all that is gained at the expense of your nerves decade after decade and can be confiscated in one fell night. Live with a steady superiority over life - don't be afraid of misfortune, and do not yearn after happiness it is after all, all the same the bitter doesn't last forever, and the sweet never fills the cup to overflowing." »Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| "Nagging questions remain Where is the line between making the most of one's potential and reaching for the unattainable Where is the line between education as a tool and education as a kind of magic The line is blurred and that is why when education fails, disillusionment is so bitter." »Henry Anatole Grunwald |
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