Bear Quotes

Never sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast.
Jean de La Fontaine

Before, Beast, Skin

Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water.
Miguel de Cervantes

Truth, Rather, Against

Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity.
James Keller

Long, Adversity, Keep

Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that.
Golda Meir

Women, Men, Children

Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Great, Last, Burden

I hate the rock music tradition. I can't bear it!
Brian Eno

Music, Hate, Rock

Once the bear's hug has got you, it is apt to be for keeps.
Harold MacMillan

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
Julius Gordon

Human, Suffering, Maturity

If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
Jean de la Bruyere

Life, Happy, Pretty

I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent.
Jerry Saltz

Art, Focus, Through

When things get so absurd and so stupid and so ridiculous that you just can't bear it, you cannot help but turn everything into a joke.
David Byrne

Stupid, Help, Cannot

Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch.
T. E. Lawrence

True, Children, Parents

A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino

Mind, Heart, High

The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them.
Jean Cocteau

Life, Design, Ideas

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.
Bodhidharma

The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance.
Sid Vicious

Looking, Band, Dirty

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

Mind, Nothing, Grudges

It is women who bear the race in bloody agony. Suffering is a kind of horror. Blood is a kind of horror. Women are born with horror in their very bloodstream. It is a biological thing.
Bela Lugosi

Women, Suffering, Blood

Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.
Lord Acton

Justice, Nothing, Show

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks

Others, Faults, Yours

To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to them that bear it.
Elizabeth I

King, Wear, Pleasant

No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
Max Planck

Happy, Days, Burden

We all need to take a deep breath and think about being a Bush daughter and having that cross to bear. I'd go out and have a couple of drinks too.
Julia Roberts

Deep, Couple, Daughter

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable.
John Milton

Able, Miserable, Blind

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.
Stephen Fry

Human, Down, Ourselves

The right to bear arms is because it's the last form of defense against tyranny.
Ice T

Last, Against, Tyranny

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.
Lord Acton

Ignorance, Simple, Two

The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
Stevie Wonder

And these things are pretty much foundational: thou shall not kill, steal, bear false witness. All these things are embedded into the laws we enjoy in our nation.
Pat Robertson

Enjoy, Pretty, Nation

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

Women, Same, Rights

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