Original Bear Flag

Famous quotes containing the words original, bear and/or flag:

    “The most original authors of today are original not because they create something new but because they are capable of saying such things as if they had never been said before.”
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)

    “[I]f a Fine Lady thinks fit to giggle at Church, or a Great Beau come in drunk to a Play, either shall be sure to hear of it in my ensuing Paper: For merely as a well-bred Man, I cannot bear these Enormities.”
    —Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    “Hath not the morning dawned with added light?
    And shall not evening call another star
    Out of the infinite regions of the night,
    To mark this day in Heaven? At last, we are
    A nation among nations; and the world
    Shall soon behold in many a distant port
    Another flag unfurled!”
    —Henry Timrod (1828–1867)