Bitter Lakes

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or lakes:

“What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

“The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)