Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“Why silk is soft and the stone wounds
The child shall question all his days,
Why night-time rain and the breast’s blood
Both quench his thirst he’ll have a black reply.”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“For insolence, once blossoming, bears its fruit, a bushel of doom, from which it reaps a tear-filled harvest.”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
“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)