Bitter Quotes

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Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and ay, 'Why… — Marcus Aurelius
Burdens are the foundations of ease and bitter things the forerunners of pleasure. — Unknown Author
I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight… — John B. S. Haldane
It be urged that the wild and uncultivated tree, hitherto yielding sour and bitter fruit only, can never be made to yield better; yet we… — Thomas Jefferson
Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Defeat isn't bitter if you don't swallow it. — Grenville Kleiser
You can choose, you can go one of two ways. You can be the person I probably admire more and say 'well I don't care… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sleep; and if life was bitter to thee, pardon, If sweet, give thanks; thou hast no more to live; And to give thanks is good,… — Algernon Charles Swinburne
Socrates dies with honor, surrounded by his disciples listening to the most tender words -the easiest death that one could wish to die. Jesus dies… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! — Robert Pollok
In the dog two conditions were found to produce pathological disturbances by functional interference, namely, an unusually acute clashing of the excitatory and inhibitory processes,… — Ivan Pavlov
The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that… — Anson Dorrance
You got into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for… — Barack Obama
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love. — Laurell K. Hamilton
We are all going to fall short. We are going to have some bitter losses, very painful defeats and failures. We have to use those… — Karch Kiraly
The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it. — Stan Barstow
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they be denied such… — Hester Lynch Piozzi
Most jokes state a bitter truth. — Larry Gelbart
Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom… — George Gissing

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