Bitter Lakes

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or lakes:

“But to me this is both bitter and sweet.”
—Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

“When you get out on one of those lakes in a canoe like this, you do not forget that you are completely at the mercy of the wind, and a fickle power it is. The playful waves may at any time become too rude for you in their sport, and play right over you.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)