Here is a collection of proverbs and quotes on bitter and bitterness.
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Barren corn makes bitter bread.
Beauty may have fair leaves, yet bitter fruit.
Bitter fruit will fall before the ripe.
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.Carol Bishop Hipps
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.(unknown author)
No melon peddler cries, 'Bitter melons'. No wine dealer says, 'Sour wine'.
Of a bitter gourd use not even the seed.A warning against children of bad people.
Patience is a tree whose root is bitter, but its fruit is very sweet.
Patience is bitter but its fruits are sweet.
Patience is bitter, but it bears sweet fruit.
The words of elders are like the gooseberry: bitter at first, then sweet.
To eat the bitter fruit of one's own doings.
Too much sugar is bitter.
