Quotes About Sour

just a cement culvert tagged with indignant graffiti, a trickle of sour shallow water rippling through

I thought these grapes were ripe, but I see now they are quite sour.

Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.

Sound drums and trumpets! Farewell sour annoy! For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy.

But the amusement that comes from watching people make fools of themselves isn't good. There's too much malice in it to please a heart more in key with simple joys. One can feel a mocking gaiety and still remain miserable. I think unhappiness may even engender such feelings. Sour pleasures feed off sour hearts.

The balls were dry as wood, you had to lick and suck at them before they tasted like sour cherries. If you chewed them well, the pit felt very smooth and hot on the tongue. Those night cherries were a happy thing, but they only sharpened our hunger.

The guards eat out in the open, I said. They don't swallow their deaths because the passerby know the sound of the snapping twigs and the sour belch of poverty.

It's excellent." Lars took another sip, trying to get the full picture. Wine could fool you: all sunshine and apples and spaghetti and then nothing but sour disappointment and empty promises.

The world around him grew silent; there was something in the air. The odor of dead meat came down on the wind, drifting through the trees. Soft and sour, the smell of distant death.

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Language is like music; we rejoice in beauty, range, and quality in both, and we are demeaned by the repetition of a few sour notes.

She tasted what she had said and found it sour enough to be accurate.

Douglas had a sour expression; he didn't want to get into this argument. Unfortunately, he'd already pushed the on button, and Alexei didn't have an off button.

He looked as if he had been weaned on a lemon.

My girlfriend was Archeanassa from Kolophon and her wrinkles are scars of a sour love. Pain, horror. On her first voyage she loved a graceful young man, and passed through fire.

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

When any relationship begins to sour, the details are different but the emotions are much the same: betrayal, disappointment, shattered dreams, and deadly silence.

But a distaste rose in me now when I looked at him. One moment I would be laughing, and the next his jests turned sour in my throat.

The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.

I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.

Racism here is sour and sticky, but it goes down so smooth that you're tempted to be racist with a Jamaican just to see if they would even get it.

The fathers have eaten sour grapes, And the children's teeth are set on edge Ezekiel 18:2

Even if we take matrimony at its lowest, even if we regard it as no more than a sort of friendship recognised by the police. - Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894 Virginibus Puerisque The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children's teeth are set on edge. - Ezekiel, 18:2 The Bible