Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“I am black and beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Song of Solomon 1:5.
“My slumber broken and my doublet torn,
I find the laurel also bears a thorn.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given to the same man.”
—Titus Livius (Livy)