Sour Quotes

222 Sour quotes by 195 unique authors

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of… — Pliny the Elder
I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry… — Dr. Seuss
The religion of Jesus Christ is not ascetic, nor sour, nor gloomy, nor circumscribing. It is full of sweetness in the present and in promise. — Henry Ward Beecher
From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet. — Unknown Author
Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized… — Henry David Thoreau
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining. — Og Mandino
My face is sour. Maybe that's why they say I'm a dictator. — Augusto Pinochet
My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you. — Daisy Ashford
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour. In a wholesome spiritual life there is no room for criticism. The critical faculty is an… — Oswald Chambers
In the spiritual domain, criticism is love turned sour... If criticism becomes a habit, it will destroy the moral energy of the life and paralyze… — Oswald Chambers
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.' — Dr. Seuss
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational. — Roger Mudd
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else. — Robertson Davies
Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes. — Spencer W. Kimball
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with the filthy conversation… — Spencer W. Kimball
Life is an exercise in the development of feeling. When we repress feelings, we become sour and judgmental. When we live awash in great feeling… — Joan D. Chittister
Running is a very natural activity. If you get too caught up, you find yourself constantly seeking to make running something that it isn't. You… — Bill Rodgers
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that… — John Updike
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and… — Thomas Carlyle
The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes. — Neil Kinnock
I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized… — Maureen Howard
There have been times when I've reflected on my international career and just thought: 'Well that was a massive waste of time.' Sorry for sounding… — Gary Neville
Yeah, I like working in television, a lot. I really enjoyed my time on 'Lost.' I like developing that hint of family with people. I… — Terry O'Quinn
In the NFL a lot of times everyone gets caught up in the business side of things. For them it's all about money and it… — Brett Favre
Birds are, especially canaries, are super sensitive to hydrogen sulfide and sour gas. — David Suzuki

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