I don't think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
Douglas MacArthur

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
Epictetus

We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
Carl Jung

Whores don't live in company of poor men, citizens never support a weak company and birds don't build nests on a tree that doesn't bear fruits.
Chanakya

To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Saint Thomas Aquinas

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing.
Bette Midler

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings

If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test.
Mary Wollstonecraft

Our tragedy is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it... the basest of all things is to be afraid.
William Faulkner

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
William Faulkner

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.
Michelangelo

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
James Allen

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.
H. L. Mencken

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Henry Ward Beecher

Next to ingratitude the most painful thing to bear is gratitude.
Henry Ward Beecher

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.
Ambrose Bierce