Sour Taste

Famous quotes containing the words sour and/or taste:

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

Proverbial reproach by God, concerning the land of Israel. The same image is used in Jeremiah 31:29.

“They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.”
—Matthew Prior (1664–1721)