If you know the story of ‘The Fox and the Grapes’ the moral read ‘The grapes are sour’. Some other versions of this defence mechanism to make you feel better when you don’t get what you want in the real world of sly foxes (people) amuse me.
If the love of your life leaves you for another, ‘I didn’t want my babies to look like her anyway’ and if you didn’t get through a job interview, ‘Thank goodness they didn’t hire me, life would suck if that receptionist was the first thing I saw every morning’.
This world we live in is no place for heavenly things. The fox never gets the grapes and so many times we are forced to live with something we hadn’t wished for. But instead of disgracing the grapes of our failures, let’s think of this in another way. Let’s admit that the grapes were too perfect for the fox and this world couldn’t accept such perfection. Let’s just blame it on the world! (No this thought sucks for a conclusion)
Either you suffer going by the above or BE THE GRAPES! Sour, sweet, whatever.. have fun watching the foxes walk away with whatever moral they like.
So what are you? Fox? Grapes? Sweet fox? Sour Grapes?
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Quinneyssential 
The fox is like many children who want to borrow someone’s toy or play in a game, and they are not allowed; their comment is something like, “Well, I didn’t want to play in that dumb old game anyway.” And this is the fox: childish, with a need to put down something he cannot have.
Yes, correct!