There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth.

Most jokes state a bitter truth.

These days feelings are so expensive....they cost you too much...

Sugar candy tasted better than bitter truth.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

People can choose between the sweet lie or the bitter truth. I say the bitter truth, but many people don't want to hear it.