Sour Quotes

• Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Wise, Adversity

  William Shakespeare, Michael Hattaway (1993). “The Third Part of King Henry VI”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

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• I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet.

  Jason Lee

  Sweet, Appreciate, Knows

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• Nothing is so sour that it can't be sweetened by a good attitude.

  Woodrow M. Kroll

  Attitude, Good Attitude

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• Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sweet, Evil, Wickedness

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1849). “Twelve Essays”, p.77

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• You've got to take the bitter with the sour.

  Samuel Goldwyn

  Advice, Bitter

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• Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.

  Robertson Davies

  Inspirational, Grudge, Harm

  Robertson Davies (1991). “Murther and Walking Spirits”, Penguin Group USA

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• No test... no testimony. You can not make lemonade with sugar alone... you must have some sour lemons. You can not learn good horsemanship by riding a tame horse. The harder the battle, the sweeter the victory.
  Regardless of what happens to you, never say you are having a bad day... say you are having a character building day. All the things that you are going through are building your character. You are being shaped and designed for your greatness. You have something special! You have GREATNESS within you!

  Les Brown

  Horse, Character, Bad Day

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• Nothing goes sour more easily than the life of pleasure.

  Mason Cooley

  Gone, Pleasure

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• The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.

  Pema Chodron

  Sweet, Truth Is, Good And Bad

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.30, Shambhala Publications

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• Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Food, Taste

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 236

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• Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

  Jane Ace

  Bitter, Wells

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• Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.

  Rumi

  Sweet, Moving, Journey

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• Unless the vessel be pure, everything which is poured into it will turn sour.

  Horace

  Turns, Vessel, Pure

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• Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Intellect, Ifs

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.306, Рипол Классик

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• Parody is homage gone sour.

  Brendan Gill

  Gone, Parody, Homage

  BRENDAN GILL (1975). “HER AT THE NEW YORKER”

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• Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

  Dr. Seuss

  Jobs, Can Do, Bits

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• I am sure the grapes are sour.

  Aesop

  Grapes

  "The Fox and the Grapes". A fable by Aesop,

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• There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.

  Pearl Bailey

  Inspirational, Life, Acceptance

  Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket

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• 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 jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!

  Dr. Seuss

  Lucky, Jam, Ham

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• When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Positive, Good Luck

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• No mirror ever became iron again;
  No bread ever became wheat;
  No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.
  Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.
  Become the light.

  Rumi

  Courage, Maturity, Light

  Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi (2008). “The Pocket Rumi”, p.138, Shambhala Publications

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• Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day is always in your possession. That's the day you remember. You get old and you think: well, at least I had that day. It happened once. You think all the variables might just line up again. But they don't. Not always. I once talked to a woman who said, "Yeah, that's the day we had an angel around.

  Charles Baxter

  Mean, Good Day, Angel

  Charles Baxter (2012). “The Feast of Love”, p.17, HarperCollins UK

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• In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'

  Maya Angelou

  Pie, Trying, Why Not

  "No surrender" by Gary Younge, www.theguardian.com. May 24, 2002.

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• I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

  Ajahn Chah

  Sweet, Views, Bird

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• In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

  Amelia Earhart

  Realizing, Trouble, Break

  "Last Flight (". Book by Amelia Earhart, 1937.

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