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.

“If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone. Let our lakes receive as true names at least as the Icarian Sea, where “still the shore” a “brave attempt resounds.””
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)