Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

“The sated appetite spurns honey, but to a ravenous appetite even the bitter is sweet.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 27:7.

“That is coupled to foul thraldom.
But if he had assayed it,
Then all perquer he should it wit;
And should think freedom more to prize
Than all the gold in world that is.”
—John Barbour (1316?–1395)