Bitter Gold

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or gold:

    To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,
    Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
    Tiruvalluvar (c. 5th century A.D.)

    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)