David said moreover,The L that delivered me out of thepawofthelion, and out ofthepawofthebear, hewill deliver me outofthehand ofthis Philistine. And Saulsaid unto David,Go, and the L be with thee.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDORD1 Samuel17:37.

I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear them now.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St  John16:12.

If you go down in the woods today You're sure of a big surprise If you down in the woods today You'd better go in disguise. For every Bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain because, Today's the day theTeddy Bears have their Picnic.

-Bratton,JohnW
  'The Teddy Bears' Picnic' (with  James B Kennedy).

The last bear, shot drinking in the Dakotas Loped under wires that span the mountain stream. Keen instruments, strung to a vast precision Bind town to town and dream to ticking dream.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'The River'.

I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree And climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

-Frost, Robert Lee
  'Birches'.

The Grizzly bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware He has been eaten by the bear.

-Housman, A(lfred) E(dward)
'Infant Innocence', collected  The Oxford Book of Light Verse (1938).

Efficiency†is measured at the extremities.You do not find the efficiency of an army at headquarters, nor of a firminhead office.It isattheremotest pointötheprivate soldier or humble legionary on the distant frontier, the girl at the counter or the branch-office junior salesman öthat the really decisive test of an army or a firm is made.It istherethat all theinstructionand knowledge of relevant facts and procedural disciplines bear fruitöor wither on the tree.

-Jay, SirAntony Rupert
  Management and Machiavelli.

Quis tulerit Gracchos de seditione querentes?

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
both killed by political opponents.

Nil habet infelix paupertas durius in se Quam quod ridiculos homines facit. The hardest thing to bear in poverty is the fact that it makes men ridiculous.

-Juvenal full name Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis
Satirae, no.3, l.152^3 (translated by Peter Green).

Si libenter crucem portas, portabit te. If you bear your cross willingly, it will bear you.

-Kempis, StThomas a'
c.1413  De Imitatione Christi, bk.2, ch.12, section 5.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined bya hard and bitter peace, proud of our ancient heritage, and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall payany price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

-Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)
  Inaugural address, Washington, 20  Jan.

There was an old person of Ware, Who rode on the back of a bear: When they asked,'Does it trot?' He said,'Certainly not! He's a Moppsikon Floppsikon bear.'

-Lear, Edward
  MoreNonsense, Pictures, Rhymes, Botany Etc,'One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes'.

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

-1st Baron
  History of England, vol.1, ch.2.

Would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?

-Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)
  Pooh, stuck in the entrance to Rabbit's house after eating too much honey. Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.2.

I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words Bother me.

-Milne, A(lan) A(lexander)
  Winnie-the-Pooh, ch.4.

They were always†getting more credit than they deserved, more sorrow than they could bear, climbing into jobs before they were ready and failing just when they were succeeding.

-Reston,James B(arrett)
  Of John F, Robert F and Edward M Kennedy. Deadline.

The fire was furry as a bear.

-Sitwell, Dame Edith Louisa
  Fa c° ade,'Dark Song'.