Famous quotes containing the words black, bears and/or rarely:
“The body is no body to be seen
But is an eye that studies its black lid.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“It is pitiful when a man bears a name for convenience merely, who has earned neither name nor fame.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)