A Quote by Mason Cooley

One who can find lemons sweet and grapes sour is ready for Dame Fortune.

Mason Cooley

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Mason Cooley
American - Writer
1927 - 2002

From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.

Rumi

Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour.

Dorothy Parker

Chili is one of the great peasant foods. It is one of the few contributions America has made to world cuisine. Eaten with corn bread, sweet onion, sour cream, it contains all five of the elements deemed essential by the sages of the Orient: sweet, sour, salty, pungent, and bitter.

Rex Stout

I am sure the grapes are sour.

Aesop

We tried it again and it didn't work out. Sour milk is always sour milk. When something goes bad it stays bad.You don't put sour milk in the refrigerator one day,and take it out the next and expect it to taste sweet.

Eric Jerome Dickey

There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

Frederick Lenz

I am like a tree in a forest. Birds come to the tree, they sit on its branches and eat its fruits. To the birds, the fruit may be sweet or sour or whatever. The birds say sweet or they say sour, but from the tree's point of view, this is just the chattering of birds.

Ajahn Chah

There is stuff I would have liked to have done. But there are no sour grapes.

Frank Gehry

My life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

Daisy Ashford

It’s not what happens to you, but how you handle it. If Life gives you lemons, make lemonade. If the lemons are rotten, take out the seeds and plant them in order to grow new lemons.

Louise Hay

The unforgivable political sin is vanity, the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

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

Aesop

The unforgivable political sin is vanity; the killer diet is sour grapes.

Neil Kinnock

A man must know how to estimate a sour face. The sour face of the multitude, like thier sweet faces, have no deep cause, but are put on and off as the wind blows and the newspaper directs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! He, like the world, his ready visit pays Where fortune smiles; the wretched he forsakes.

Edward Young

I suppose that the main benefit of being rich (over just being independent) is to be able to despise rich people (a good concentration of whom you find in glitzy ski resorts) without any sour grapes. It is even sweeter when these farts don't know that you are richer than they are.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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