Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

“But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man’s eyes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)