You must learn to drink the cup of life as it comes ... without stirring it up from the bottom. That's where the bitter dregs are!

However, we will not repeat the past bitter history of turbulence and instability in the world resulted from the rise of a big power, but seek a road that a new rising nation has never taken,

The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

It is not an easy choice. I understand that this is a bitter pill but I have to do it to save the country's economy and the country's future,

I wanted something that would be absorbing. I didn't want to fester in front of daytime television and feel bitter like Coriolanus.

I don't see the point in being bitter.

Yet each man kills the thing he loves from all let this be heard some does it with a bitter look some with a flattering word the coward does it with a kiss the brave man with the sword.

It's been a great life until the last three years. These energy prices are a bitter pill.

The life that neither grief nor burden knowsIs dwarfed in sympathy before its close.The life that grows majestic with the yearsMust taste the bitter tonic found in tears.

Those big, bold wines are too intensive for some. A Cabernet Sauvignon red wine might be ideal for a consumer with a typical number of taste buds, but it might taste bitter for a consumer with a large number of taste buds like me.