“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
The Bear (1974).
“Whether the bear beats the wolf or the wolf beats the bear, the rabbit always loses.”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
“Clamorous pauperism feasteth
While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.”
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Of Discretion.
Proverbial Philosophy (1838-1849)
“Dog, ounce, bear, and bull,
Wolfe, lion, horse.”
Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas (1544–1590) French writer
Second Week, First Day, Part iii. Compare: "Lion, bear, or wolf, or bull", William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act ii. sc. 1.
La Seconde Semaine (1584)
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
Thomas Wolfe book You Can't Go Home Again
Source: You Can't Go Home Again
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887–1952) British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator (1887-1952)
12 September 1936, Advice to the pupils of the Bishop Cotton School, Simla, also quoted in Speeches and Statements of the Marquess of Linlithgow, p. 19
Erma Bombeck (1927–1996) When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent le…
Source: Family - The Ties that Bind...And Gag!