Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
Most jokes state a bitter truth.
I love bitter broccoli rabe tossed with Calabrian chiles and hidden under a mountain of snowy shaved Parmesan.
Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
A healthy degree of party unity among Democrats and Republicans has deteriorated into bitter partisan warfare.
It is bitter to think of one's best years disappearing in this unpolished country.
Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.
Blanching the cloves removes the harsh and bitter bite of raw garlic.
I suppose there are a lot of reasons to be jaded or sarcastic or bitter in life, but I hang on to the reasons why life is beautiful.
The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
The struggles to overturn colonial rule were long and often bitter. But, over time, most were inevitably successful.
I venture to prophesy that there lies before us a bitter and an evil time.
