131 Proverbs about Bitter / Page 3
41. Every one finds sin sweet and repentance bitter.
42. It is bitter fare to eat one's own words.
43. Labour has a bitter root, but a sweet taste.
44. The is worthy of sweets, who has tasted bitters.
45. Truth is bitter food.
46. When the mouse has had enough the meal is bitter.
47. It is sweet to drink but bitter to pay for.
48. Even the truth may be bitter.
49. No war is more bitter than the war of friends, but it does not last long.
50. The wine is sweet, the paying bitter.
51. Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
52. A little gall embitters much honey.
53. Sugared words generally prove bitter.
54. To a depraved taste sweet is bitter.
55. Even a sugar mother-in-law tastes bitter.
56. Patience is bitter, but the fruit is sweet.
57. Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
58. Barren corn makes bitter bread.
59. Cherries are bitter to the glutted blackbird.
60. Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach, so adversity chastens and ameliorates the disposition.
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