A Quote by Agnes Sligh Turnbull

You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

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Agnes Sligh Turnbull
American - Writer
October 14, 1888 - January 31, 1982

We are meant to taste of life ... and drink the cup of it to the dregs, bitter and sweet alike.

Jacqueline Carey

Life is a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink the sooner we reach the dregs.

James M. Barrie

Christ took your cup of grief, your cup of the curse, pressed it to his lips, drank it to its dregs, then filled it with his sweet, pardoning, sympathizing love, and gave it back for you to drink, and to drink forever!

Octavius Winslow

The bitter dregs of Fortune's cup to drain.

Homer

When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.

Jane Porter

Learn to drink the cup of life as it comes.

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

Oswald Chambers

Chocolate is the divine drink which builds up resistance and fights fatigue. A cup of this precious drink permits a man to walk for a whole day without food.

Hernando Cortes

While therefore your tears flow, let a due proportion be tears of joy. Yet take the bitter cup with both hands and sit down to your repast. You will soon learn a secret: that there is sweetness at the bottom.

Adoniram Judson

If the bitter cup does not pass, drink it and be strong, trusting in happier days ahead.

Jeffrey R. Holland

Busy, curious, thirsty fly, Drink with me and drink as I! Freely welcome to my cup, Could'st thou sip and sip it up; Make the most of life you may; Life is short and wears away.

William Oldys

Life is like a cocktail, made up for the most part of sweet things, and tinged with a dash of bitters. We must drain it to the dregs to get at the cherry, just as we must live a full and rounded life to know all its pleasures.

Edgar Guest

Ah, I hope to live to 87 and drink from the the goblet of life to the dregs.

Theo Van Gogh

My father taught me that only through self-discipline can you achieve freedom. Pour water in a cup and you can drink; without the cup, the water would splash all over. The cup is discipline.

Ricardo Montalban

O cease! must hate and death return, Cease! must men kill and die? Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn Of bitter prophecy. The world is weary of the past, Oh, might it die or rest at last!