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“Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.”
William Shakespeare
“Sour, sweet, bitter, pungent, all must be tasted”
Chinese Proverbs
“Music do I hear?Ha, ha! 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.”
“He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one;Exceedingly wise, fair-spoken and persuading;Lofty and sour to them that loved him not;But to those men that sought him sweet as summer.”
“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour”
“Parody is homage gone sour.”
Brendan Gill
“I am sure the grapes are sour.”
Aesop
“The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes.”
“The jelly - the jam and the marmalade, And the cherry-and quince-"preserves" she made! And the sweet-sour pickles of peach and pear, With cinnamon in 'em, and all things rare! - And the more we ate was the more to spare, Out to old Aunt Mary's! Ah!”
James Whitcomb Riley
“Sour as a green apple”
Proverb
