Dorothy Parker
Poet, Writer, Critic
"Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour."
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Sour
34 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Aesop
Fabulist
"I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour."
Jason Lee
Actor
"I know sour, which allows me to appreciate the sweet."
Pema Chodron
Buddhist Teacher, Author
"The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other."
Aesop
Fabulist
"I am sure the grapes are sour."
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"Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us."
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"Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience."
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"I know how to be sour. I know that taste."
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