Bears Generally

Famous quotes containing the words bears and/or generally:

“For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a tear-filled harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

“I know as well as any one, [the devil] is an adversary, whom if we resist, he will fly from us—but I seldom resist him at all; from a terror, that though I may conquer, I may still get a hurt in the combat—so ... instead of thinking to make him fly, I generally fly myself.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)