Bitter Lakes

Famous quotes containing the words bitter and/or lakes:

“The bitter sea of life is boundless; if one but turns around, there’s the shore.”
—Chinese proverb.

“No doubt, the short distance to which you can see in the woods, and the general twilight, would at length react on the inhabitants, and make them savages. The lakes also reveal the mountains, and give ample scope and range to our thought.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)