“ The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labor in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour. ”
- Frederic Raphael- Copy
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“ It would be far better to be of no church than to be bitter of any. ”
- William Penn- Copy
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“ How sour sweet music is When time is broke and no proportions kept! So it is in the music of men's lives. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance. ”
- Alistair Cooke- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ The revolutionists did not succeed in establishing human freedom; they poured the new wine of belief in equal rights for all men into the old bottle of privilege for some; and it soured. ”
- Suzanne La Follette- Copy
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“ Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical. ”
- Edwin Hubbel Chapin- Copy
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“ There is a period of life when we swallow knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside. ”
- Pearl Bailey- Copy
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“ Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. ”
- St. Teresa of Avila- Copy
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“ We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine; but if we defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age. ”
- Charles Caleb Colton- Copy
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“ Tomatoes and oregano make it Italian; wine and tarragon make it French. Sour cream makes it Russian; lemon and cinnamon make it Greek. Soy sauce makes it Chinese; garlic makes it good. ”
- Alice May Brock- Copy
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“ Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a life-purpose; he has found it, and will follow it! How, as a free-flowing channel, dug and torn by noble force through the sour mudswamp of one's existence, like an ever-deepening river there, it runs and flows;raining off the sour festering water, gradually from the root of the remotest grass-blade; making, instead of pestilential swamp, a green fruitful meadow with its clear-flowing stream… ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ To get the most out of the world one must conscientiously strive to put the most into it. Life without worthy ideals becomes wholly unsatisfying, sour. If our supreme objective is to serve, no blow fate may administer can daunt us. ”
- B.C. Forbes- Copy
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“ There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries. ”
- Edith Wharton- Copy
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“ That prayer has great power which a person makes with all his might. It makes a sour heart sweet, a sad heart merry, a poor heart rich, a foolish heart wise, a timid heart brave, a sick heart well, a blind heart full of sight, a cold heart ardent. It draws down the great God into the little heart; it drives the hungry soul up into the fullness of God; it brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a wondrous place where they speak much of love. ”
- Mechthild of Magdeburg- Copy
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