From cane reeds, sugar. From a worm's cocoon, silk. Be patient if you can, and from sour grapes will come something sweet.
I write with humour about sadness, to introduce an element of sweet to the sour, a bit like Turkish food.
My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical
It's always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.
There's a period of life when we swallow a knowledge of ourselves and it becomes either good or sour inside.
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
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.
Hope and wishes for all that delights will sour in the midst of action not taken and words unsaid.
Indeed, you become what you eat. In which case I am an onion. Layered, slightly sour and guaranteed to bring tears to the eyes.
I like really sharp flavors, and I like contrasts. Something sweet and sour at the same time is a big win.
Everything is beautiful seen from the point of the intellect, or as truth. But all is sour if seen as experience.
I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour. I'm funky like a monkey. Sky's the limit and space is the place!
I didn't watch the Emmys because - well, for one, I have been to awards shows, and I understand how it works. For another, sour grapes. Actually, that's probably number one.
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have.
I am a greedy poet. I keep munching life all the time. Sweet, sour and bitter moments.
For this is love's truth; she joins two in one being, makes sweet sour, strangers neighbors, and the lowly noble.
I'm not afraid of losing money, I'm afraid of sour relationships.
You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity and the sour sound of whining.
They may be small, but microgreens are intensely flavorful, ranging from sweet to spicy to tart to sour.
I delight in the sweet and sour moments we routinely share, together applauded by muppets in leotards.
Well, basically Corey and I were in Stone Sour before we joined Slipknot.
I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder.
I'm not one for like soul-searching, sour fizzy moments. I come from the school of hard knocks, "f**king get on with it", that's it.
Most men remember obligations, but not often to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
I do a devilish borscht, and I'm very good at pickles. I used to make jars and jars of sweet-and-sour pickled cucumbers.
Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'
You have to learn how to stay in a good mood as you overthrow the sour, puckered hallucination that is mistakenly referred to as reality.
Pickled chillies are a must with wantan mee. I could eat a whole bowl of them - they're hot, salty, vinegary and sour all at the same time.
The relationship between press and politician - protected by the Constitution and designed to be happily adversarial - becomes sour, raw and confrontational.
I'm a bitter, sad, sour young man who makes a career out of hastling people with real careers.
As much as I love Slipknot, I don't want that to carry over into what I do for Stone Sour. I want both bands to stand on their own.
The texture of Mexican crema is thinner than that of regular American sour cream, but it also has a more distinct tang to it.
I suppose any note, no matter how sour, sounds like a song if you hold onto it long enough.
But I always kind of knew in the back of my head that I could come back and do Stone Sour.
What if the Church and the State
Are the mob that howls at the door!
Wine shall run thick to the end,
Bread taste sour.
Journey from the self to the Self and find the mine of gold. Leave behind what is sour and bitter and move toward the sweet.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.
Never harbor grudges; they sour your stomach and do no harm to anyone else.
Sweet tastes have sour closes; and he repents on thorns that sleeps in beds of roses.
Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
But love that comes too late,
Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,
To the great sender turns a sour offense,
Crying, 'That's good that's gone.
You noticed that I wore this outfit twice? Why, the only thing you wear twice is a sour expression.
With caviar, you place a blob of it on sour cream or on a lettuce leaf and everyone is happy. I'm trying to get away from that.
The truth is that good and bad coexist; sour and sweet coexist. They aren't really opposed to each other.
The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
Most men remember obligations, but are not often likely to be grateful; the proud are made sour by the remembrance and the vain silent.
Such a man, truly wise, creams off Nature leaving the sour and the dregs for philosophy and reason to lap up.
I'm the man of the hour, the man with the power, too sweet to be sour.
Its always in the second administration when things start to go sour. They circle the wagons.
The people we keep standing in the anteroom of our favor either start fermenting or turn sour.
It's been an incredible experience, playing with Twisted Sister, Stone Sour, Avenged Sevenfold, jamming with Ace Frehley and Peter Criss, and the list goes on and on and on.
Tribulation will not hurt you, unless as it too often does; it hardens you and makes you sour, narrow and skeptical.
One thing that's never gonna go, you know, go sour is good music.
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