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)
“My slumber broken and my doublet torn,
I find the laurel also bears a thorn.”
—Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)
“Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)