Bear Expectations

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Human kind cannot bear very much reality. - T S Eliot

Free men do not ask permission to bear arms. - Thomas Jefferson

I'd rather write about polar bears than people. - Mary Oliver

I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing. - Bette Midler

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety. - Aeschylus

The measure of a man is the way he bears up under misfortune. - Plutarch

Nature Lover: A person who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the view - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. - Dudley Moore

Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. - Marcus Aurelius

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

The traveler with empty pockets pursues his journey in perfect safety. - Ovid

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's house is in flames. - Horace

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

Bulls and bears aren't responsible for as many stock losses as bum steers. - Olin Miller

It's not the bulls or the bears you need to avoid, it's the bum steers. - Chuck Hillis

Philosophy may teach us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of our neighbors. - Oscar Wilde

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. - Benjamin Franklin

Having hope will give you courage. You will be protected and will rest in safety. - Bible

Human beings can't bear silence. It would mean that they would bear themselves. - Pascal Mercier

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except for bears. Bears will kill you. - Unknown

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. - Winston Churchill

A bear can juggle and stand on a ball and he's talented, but he's not famous. - Kim Kardashian

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. - Phillips Brooks

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. - Abraham Maslow

Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. - C S Lewis

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. - Aristotle

Individuality is either the mark of genius or the reverse. Mediocrity finds safety in standardization. - Frederick Crane

My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen. - Quvenzhane Wallis

Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that will never happen. - James Russell Lowell

Drunk Man: "I can't bear fools."
Dorothy Parker: "Apparently your mother could." - Dorothy Parker

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. - Diogenes

We deem those happy who, from the experience of life, have learned to bear its ills, without being overcome by them. - Juvenal

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

When we save the rain forest, the polar bear, and Al Gore, we should party so hard that Canada calls the cops on us for noise. - Paula Poundstone

Faithfulness is essential to the character of a friend: without this there can be no safety in intimacy with and confidence in him. - Samuel Hopkins

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Join voices, all ye living souls: ye birds,
That singing up to heaven-gate ascend,
Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. - John Milton

I adore art. When I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear. - Guiseppe Verdi

The Cross! There, and there only though the deist rave, and the atheist, if Earth bears so base a slave; There and there only, is the power to save. - William Cowper