Sour

Famous quotes containing the word sour:

“The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ezekiel 18:2.

Proverb, God’s reproach concerning the land of Israel.

“O, give me thy hand,
One writ with me in sour misfortune’s book!”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“There is too much sour grapes for my taste in the present American attitude. The time to denounce the bankers was when we were all feeding off their gold plate; not now! At present they have not only my sympathy but my preference. They are the last representatives of our native industries.”
—Edith Wharton (1862–1937)