Bitter Quotes - Page 6

• Poverty is bitter, but it has no harder pang than that it makes men ridiculous.

  Juvenal

  Men, Poverty, Ridiculous

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 152, 1890.

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• No wars are more bitter than those undertaken in the name of religion.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  War, Names, No War

  Elisabeth Marbury (1924). “My Crystal Ball: Reminiscences”, New York : Boni and Liveright

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• There is no fruit which is not bitter before it is ripe.

  Publilius Syrus

  Fruit, Ripe

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• If you do things when you're burned out, it'll make you bitter.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Burned, Burned Out, Ifs

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• The real juice of life, whether it be sweet or bitter, is to be found not nearly so much in the products of our efforts as in the process of living itself, in how it feels to be alive.

  George Leonard

  Sweet, Real, Effort

  George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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• He who hasn't tasted bitter things hasn't earned sweet things.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Sweet, Sweet Things

  Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (2015). “Leibniz: Philosophical Essays”, p.153, Hackett Publishing

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• A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teenager, Men

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• If you are bitter, it will eat you up and do you much more damage than the people who have hurt you

  Terry Waite

  Love, Life, Family

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• Ultimately it boils down to the same thing all relationships boil down to: eating humble pie. I sometimes eat quite a lot. But, however bitter it might taste, it's the best pie. It's on the menu constantly for both parties.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Party, Humble, Pie

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• There is no such thing as pure, unalloyed pleasure; some bitter ever mingles with the sweet.

  Ovid

  Sweet, Pleasure, Pure

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• The wife, or bitter half.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wife, Half

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• Our modern world defined God as a ‘religious complex’ and laughed at the Ten Commandments as OLD FASHIONED. Then, through the laughter came the shattering thunder of the World War. And now a blood-drenched, bitter world — no longer laughing — cries for a way out. There is but one way out. It existed before it was engraven upon Tablets of Stone. It will exist when stone has crumbled. The Ten Commandments are not rules to obey as a personal favor to God. They are the fundamental principles without which mankind cannot live together.

  Cecil B. DeMille

  Religious, Laughter, War

  "Cecil B. DeMille's Campaign for a Godly Culture" by Mark H. Creech, www.christianpost.com. September 9, 2013.

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• Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for which Americans fought were clearly understood.

  Allen Weinstein

  Goal, Purpose, Disputes

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• Vice may triumph for a time, crime may flaunt its victories in the face of honest toilers, but in the end the law will follow the wrong-doer to a bitter fate, and dishonor and punishment will be the portion of those who sin.

  Allan Pinkerton

  Fate, Law, Punishment

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• Laughter makes the bitter swallowing of truth, for some, a little easier.

  Bill Hicks

  Laughter, Swallowing, Littles

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• I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Book, Writing

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• I was never bitter because I believed in the man upstairs. I continue to do my best. I let someone else be bitter. If I was bitter, I was only hurting me. I prefer to remember Bill Veeck and and Jim Hegan and Joe Gordon, the good guys. There is no point in talking about the others.

  Larry Doby

  Hurt, Men, Talking

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• The food that memory gives to eat is bitter to the taste, and it is only with the teeth of hope that we can bear to bite it.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Memories, Giving, Teeth

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1119, Delphi Classics

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• I went to this dance with some of my friends and there were kids saying `I know who you are - you`re Aaron Carter!` It doesn`t bother me if people confuse us. I know we`re very different. I am who I am. I don`t wanna say I have a temperbut I do! I kind of sulk and sit there when I`m bitter. I won`t show you, but you can see it. Probably if you bring me Godiva chocolate, I`ll be your friend again!

  Jesse McCartney

  Kids, Who I Am, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm very happy and lonely single old man - and bitter.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Lonely, Men, Old Man

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• You know what I think the guy who reviewed the live show for Pitchfork suffers from? Shy/asshole confusion. I'm not an asshole. I don't think I have to prove that to anyone, but I'm just putting that out there. I just think people should know that I'm not trying too hard. I think some people are just bitter that they ended up reviewing the show rather than playing the show, perhaps.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, People, Confusion

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• Like all great documentaries, The Act of Killing demands another way of looking at reality. It starts as a dreamscape, an attempt to allow the perpetrators to reenact what they did, and then something truly amazing happens. The dream dissolves into nightmare and then into bitter reality. An amazing and impressive film.

  Errol Morris

  Dream, Reality, Demand

  "Documentary ‘The Act of Killing’ Premieres at Telluride, Screens at Toronto" by Anne Thompson and Maggie Lange, www.indiewire.com. August 31, 2012.

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• There was endless controversy as to whether the acts of the New Deal did actually move recovery or retard it, and nothing final could ever come of that bitter debate because it is forever impossible to prove what might have happened in place of what did.

  Garet Garrett

  Moving, Recovery, Forever

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• Fools, their wisdom weak,
  are their own enemies
  as they go through life,
  doing evil
  that bears
  bitter fruit.

  Juan Mascaro

  Evil, Enemy, Fool

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