Source: The Tao of Pooh
David Gemmell book Stormrider
Source: Rigante series, Stormrider, Ch. 7
Context: No need for confusion, my dear Mulgrave [... ] Beautiful wine and sour vinegar come from exactly the same source. Curiously if one leaves a bottle of wine open for long enough it will become vinegar. Happily in this house wine never survives long enough to go bad.
“No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.”
José Rizal (1861–1896) Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
Letter to the Young Women of Malolos
Ben Harper (1969) singer-songwriter and musician
Wicked Man.
Song lyrics, There Will Be a Light (2004)
“Sweetness of life depends to its bitterness.”
Javad Alizadeh (1953) cartoonist, journalist and humorist
Quoted in Humor & Caricature (September 1995), p. 3
“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
“I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.”
Billy Graham (wrestler) (1943–2023) American professional wrestler, american football player, bodybuilder
Billy Graham, Tangled Ropes: Superstar Billy Graham (2006)
“Why use bitter soup for healing
when sweet water is everywhere?”
Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet
Source: The Essential Rumi (1995), Ch. 19 : Jesus Poems, p. 204
Context: Christ is the population of the world,
and every object as well. There is no room
for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing
when sweet water is everywhere?
Tomas Kalnoky (1980) American musician
"The Receiving End of it All" from "Somewhere in the Between" (2007) http://risc.perix.co.uk/lyrics/sm/sitb/09/
