Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samuel Richardson

Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.

Samuel Beckett

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

William Gurnall

Christ will bear no equal, and Satan no superior; and therefore, hold in with both thou canst not.

Stephen Colbert

It would be a very short pint. It would be gummy bears and matzah, and be called Chewy Jewy.

Victoria Woodhull

Denounce me for advocating freedom if you can, and I will bear your curse with a better resignation.

Solon

No more good must be attempted than the nation can bear

Shannon Miller

Charles Barkley was a big teddy bear.

Leymah Gbowee

Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies.

Sophie Swetchine

Piety softens all that courage bears.

Marcus Aurelius

Everything that happens either happens in such a way as you are formed by nature to bear it, or as you are not formed by nature to bear it.

Marcus Aurelius

There is no misfortune, but to bear it nobly is good fortune.

Marcus Aurelius

What we cannot bear removes us from life; what remains can be borne.

Thomas a Kempis

At the least bear patiently, if thou canst not joyfully.

Thomas a Kempis

If you bear the cross gladly, it will bear you.

Thomas a Kempis

If you bear the cross unwillingly, you make it a burden, and load yourself more heavily; but you must bear it.

Tim O'Brien

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Tacitus

It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.

Tony Kornheiser

The Bears treat offense as if its bubonic plague.

T. J. Miller

GOOD THINGS DO COME IN BEARS!!.... is how I climax.

T. J. Miller

When it's all you, you can't blame a bear. You gotta bear the burden yourself.

Joseph Epstein

Someone — Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? — once said that anything that can be read twice is literature; I would say that anything that bears saying twice is quotable.

Terry Goodkind

Nothing gained without cost is valued. Freedom has a cost, and all will bear it so all will value and preserve it.

Simone Weil

To be innocent is to bear the weight of the entire universe. It is to throw away the counterweight.

Stephen Fry

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Rupert Sheldrake

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

Thomas Jefferson

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

Richard Paul Evans

The greatest shackles we bear in thislife are those forged by our own fears

Voltaire

Let us help one another to bear our burdens.

Walter Raleigh

No mortal thing can bear so high a price, But that with mortal thing it may be bought.

Wolfgang Schauble

If you make the state responsible for everything, you shouldn't be surprised when you end up with a state that bears some resemblance to a dictatorship.