“He that hath eaten a bear-pie, will always smell of the garden.”
English Proverbs (1659)
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Anglo-Welsh historian and writer 1594–1666Related quotes

“2033. He talks in the Bear-Garden Tongue.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)

“He's as great a master of ill language as ever was bred at a Bear-Garden.”
Source: London Terraefilius, No. 3, p. 29, (1707).

Nothing’s Sacred (2005)

“This is brave Bear-Garden language!”
See John Ray for explanation of Bear Garden.
Source: A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, p 232. (1698)

“History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear.”

“Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.”
Old saying in Randland
(15 October 1994)
Gaming the vote: why elections aren't fair (and what we can do about it), William Poundstone, p. 50, ISBN 0-8090-4893-0.