Bear Quotes - page 2

The troubles of our proud and angry dust Are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale. (A. E. Housman)
Humankind cannot bear very much reality. View quote
T. S. Eliot
The only thing of weight that can be said against modern honor is that it is directly opposite to religion. The one bids you bear injuries with patience, the other tells you if you don't resent them, you are not fit to live. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
Children were meant to be gifts. The physical manifestation of love between a man and a woman. And for that love all manner of sacrifice could be borne. View quote
Steven Erikson
Women's liberation is just a lot of foolishness. It's men who are discriminated against. They can't bear children. And no one is likely to do anything about that. View quote
Golda Meir
Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never happen. View quote
James Russell Lowell
The band broke up because I couldn't bear Rotten anymore because he was an embarrassment with his silly hats and his, like, shabby, dirty, nasty looking appearance. View quote
Sid Vicious
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. View quote
Victor Hugo
All that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable. View quote
Kathleen Norris
Chinese are wise in comprehending without many words what is inevitable and inescapable and therefore only to be borne. View quote
Pearl S. Buck
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. (Milan Kundera)
Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult--at least I have found it so--than constantly to bear this conclusion in mind. View quote
Charles Darwin
Women are the ones that bear the greatest burden. We are also the ones who nurture societies. View quote
Leymah Gbowee
Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. View quote
Bill Clinton
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all. View quote
Johann Kaspar Lavater
The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. View quote
Douglas MacArthur
To bear is to conquer our fate. View quote
Thomas Campbell
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, "This is a misfortune" but "To bear this worthily is good fortune." View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. (Zane Grey)
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. View quote
Henry Ward Beecher
Is it, in Heav'n, a crime to love too well To bear too tender, or too firm a heart To act a lover's or a Roman's part Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think, or bravely die. View quote
Alexander Pope
Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. View quote
William Makepeace Thackeray
Love at the lips was touch As sweet as I could bear And once that seemed too much I lived on air. View quote
Robert Frost
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