“Lynyrd Skynyrd ain't the only one with a sweet home… Alabama.”
Brandon DiCamillo (1976) American actor
From Landspeed: CKY AKA CKY 1
Source: Vanilla Sky
“Lynyrd Skynyrd ain't the only one with a sweet home… Alabama.”
Brandon DiCamillo (1976) American actor
From Landspeed: CKY AKA CKY 1
Sam Cooke (1931–1964) American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
(Ain't That) Good News
Song lyrics, Ain't That Good News (1964)
George Horne (1730–1792) English churchman, writer and university administrator
Source: The Works of the Right Reverend George Horne, 1809, p. 310
“The roots of education … are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.”
Javad Alizadeh (1953) cartoonist, journalist and humorist
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (September 1995), p. 3
“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Improvisatrice (1824)
Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory
By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void. (trans. Durant 1939), Ch. XVI, §II, p. 353; citing C. Bakewell, Sourcebook in Ancient Philosophy, New York, 1909, "Fragment O" (Diels), p. 60
“What makes bitter things sweet? Hunger.”
Alcuin (735–804) English scholar and abbot
in R Lacey and D Danziger, The Year 1000, Little, Brown and Co,GB, 1999, p. 57