Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“Street lamps come out, and lean at corners, awry,
Casting black shadows, oblique and intense....”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“Virtue, my pet, is an abstract idea, varying in its manifestations with the surroundings. Virtue in Provence, in Constantinople, in London, and in Paris bears very different fruit, but is none the less virtue.”
—Honoré De Balzac (1799–1850)
“We rarely meet with any men of good sense except those that are of our own opinion.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)