Take the bitter with the sweet


American Proverb

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Don't be too sweet lest you be eaten up; don't be too bitter lest you be spewed out
YIDDISH PROVERB
Eat bitter, taste sweet," Frank said. "I hate that proverb."

"But it's true. What do they...
RICK RIORDAN
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
It was bitter and sweet,
CARL ERSKINE
Revenge is Always Sweet, it's the Aftertaste that's Bitter.
JOSHUA CALEB
My your heart never be bitter as dandelion greens but let it be sweet as honey and flow from your ac...
STARGAZER
The sweeter the talks, the bitter are its effects.
NEHA KOTHARI
When you understand that [in reality] the bitter fruit [unfavourable result] is sweet and the sweet ...
DADA BHAGWAN
Sweet revenge always turns bitter eventually.
RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
Evil is sweet in the beginning but bitter in the end.
TALMUD
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
ARISTOTLE
Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
ARISTOTLE
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Indolence is sweet, and its consequences bitter.
VOLTAIRE
Indolence is sweet, and its consequence bitter.
VOLTAIRE
Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.
MARGARET MITCHELL
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet. -Aristotle.
ARISTOTLE
He'd do what he always did, find the sweet among the bitter.
JAMIE FORD
All day long you sit and sew,
Stitch life down for fear it grow,

Stitch life down fo...
EDITH SITWELL
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted.
CHINESE PROVERB
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
ARISTOTLE
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU
Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted
CHINESE PROVERBS
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
TURKISH PROVERB
You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkne...
BIBLE
Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth.
TOBA BETA
It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
IRISH PROVERB
Look forward to the marchpanes that boost thou, not the bitter that hinders.
EDWARD HUANG
Sin bites bitter. But oh, the sweet taste of salvation, that stirs the spirit!
ANTHONY LICCIONE
The tongue is the most remarkable. For we use it both to taste out sweet wine and bitter poison, thu...
NEIL GAIMAN
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the ...
JANET FITCH
People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people...
AVIGDOR LIEBERMAN
Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.
GEORGE HERBERT
Truth heals, even when bitter; lies harm, even when sweet.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Love is sweet but its journey can be very bitter
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
duty,sacrifice, they mean something.
Eat bitter taste sweet
RICK RIORDAN
Some people are bitter, some sour, others are sweet. Who you hang out with depends on your taste.
UNKNOWN
Water flows because it's willing.
MARTY RUBIN
Go with the flow even if there are rapids ahead.
JIM GENOVESE
Don't resist life, flow with it.
JIM GENOVESE
Life is more like dancing than wrestling if you follow its rhythm.
JIM GENOVESE
The problem with compassion is that it is not photogenic.
SEBASTIAN HORSLEY
Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.
MARGARET MITCHELL
Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.
JOANNE HARRIS
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
...and the great advantage of being a literary woman, was that you could go everywhere and do everyt...
HENRY JAMES
You're too sweet for your own damn good.
C.L.STONE
Suddenly she felt strong and happy. She was not afraid of the darkness or the fog and she knew with ...
MARGARET MITCHELL
The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is every...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy. -As You Like It. Act iv. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.
JOHN MILTON
Revenge, at first though sweet, bitter, ere long, back on itself recoils
JOHN MILTON
Dive into the river of the present, but don't thrash about, go with the flow.
JIM GENOVESE
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
GERMAN PROVERB
Your flavor in my mind swings back and forth between sweeter than any wine and as bitter as mustard ...
AARON WEISS
There is no perfect ending to a relationship. No magic formula. Just a silent scream as they rip you...
MICHAEL FAUDET
I like to not have to be 'on' for anybody.
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INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis, Louis, Louis...Stil whining, Louis! Are you quite finished? I've had to listen to that for ce...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis: I'm flesh and blood, but not human. I haven't been human for two hundred years.
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
Louis: You see that old woman? That will never happen to you. You will never grow old, and you will ...
INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE
The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet. -All 's Well that Ends Well. Act v. Sc. 3.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.
PROVERB
The berries of the brier rose Have lost their rounded pride: The bitter-sweet chrysanthemums ...
ALICE CARY
To a hungry person, every bitter food is sweet. When the preferable is not available, the available ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.
GEORGE ALEXIOU
They knew that love snatched in the face of danger and death was doubly sweet for the strange excite...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a h...
MARGARET MITCHELL
Maybe that's what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as a choice to commit t...
EMILY GIFFIN
O full and splendid Moon, whom I
Have, from this desk, seen climb the sky
So many a midnig...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
The problem with me is that nothing embarrasses me.
DAVID HASSELHOFF
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
STEPHEN KING
Sweet Mercy! to the gates of Heaven This minstrel lead, his sins forgiven; The rueful conflic...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now.
FREDERICK DODSON
Life is sweet till a bitter reality comes and hits us! After that, if you are a strong person, life ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
A bitter reality of truth can be wisely told in a sweet tale of lies.
TOBA BETA
When life is sweet, be thankful, and rejoice; but when bitter, be strong, and persevere.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
Mawah meenon ne le plus poohlala," I say with an affected bow.
LIBBA BRAY
For though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.
THOMAS PAINE
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
The power of beauty is that it encapsulates all the bitter sweet elements and mirrors them back as a...
WAYNE CHIRISA
Fifty-plus is the new sweet spot in the American marketplace.
CHUCK UNDERWOOD
If you have the will to accumulate knowledge it has to be used in the way it was intended to be used...
GARY F EVANS...
Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.
JEWISH PROVERB
When placed in God's hands, life is like a chocolate cake: Take something bitter, something dry, so...
UNKNOWN
A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
TOBA BETA
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
Isn’t Hollywood a dump — in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insul...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
African-American history is not something that can be put on display solely during the month of Febr...
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That's the problem with ADHD: I have no focus; I get bored.
HANNAH GADSBY
The problem with the gene pool is that there's no lifeguard.
DAVID GERROLD
It's just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart ar...
KAREN MARIE MONING
The problem with prototypes is they don't always work.
LAURIE ANDERSON
I just never thought I'd get to see how beautiful you'd become
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