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"...for no man lives in the external truth among salts and acids, but in the warm, phantasmagoric chamber of his brain, with the painted windows and the storied wall." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"You've got to take the bitter with the sour." »Samuel Goldwyn
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"What is food to one, is to others bitter poison." »Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
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"Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle." »Will Durant
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"What is food to one man is bitter poison to others." »Lucretius
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"Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it." »Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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"No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations." »Cornelius Tacitus
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"Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." »Aristotle
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"Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out." »Jewish Proverb
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"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet." »Aristotle
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"Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain." »John Locke
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"Virtue they will but abuse, and taunt her with bitter revilling." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations - Book Eleven
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"Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted." »Chinese Proverb
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"A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's teeth." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." »Samuel Johnson
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"It is bitter to lose a friend to evil, before one loses him to death." »Mary Renault
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"Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest." »Samuel Johnson
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"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter." »Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)
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"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter." »Denis Diderot
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"Old friends become bitter enemies on a sudden for toys and small offenses." »Robert Burton
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"Ah, what shall I be at fifty,
should nature keep me alive,
if I find the world so bitter
when I am but twenty-five?" »Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education." »Mark Twain
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"If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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
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"No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Opportunities lose not, for all delay is madness; ?Mid bitter sorrow patience show, for ?tis the key of gladness." »Turkish
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"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
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"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
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"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
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