Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“th’ other black and grave, wherewith each one
Is checker’d all along,
Humilitie:”
—George Herbert (1593–1633)
“The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)