Who said sometimes you eat the bear

Carl O. Roger Penske? Jim Croce? Preacher Roe? Dear Quote Investigator: There is a family of ursine sayings about the topsy-turvy vicissitudes of life:. Would you please examine the provenance of this family? The early human diet included foods derived from plants and animals, but hunting megafauna was a dangerous endeavor.

Emerson described a beleaguered primal figure. Emphasis added to excerpts by QI : 1. He is a poor creature; he scratches with a sharp stick, lives in a cave or a hutch, has no road but the trail of the moose or bear; he lives on their flesh when he can kill one, on roots and fruits when he cannot.

He falls, and is lame; he coughs, he has a stitch in his side, he has a fever and chills: when he is hungry, he cannot always kill and eat a bear; —chances of war,— sometimes the bear eats him. Another precursor appeared in an item printed in an Alexandria, Louisiana newspaper in The two-fold contingent nature of encounters with bears was highlighted: 2.

The farmers of this community are about done gathering their crops, and many of them are now in the woods gathering up their hogs. What is the meaning of the phrase 'sometimes the bar eats you' in The Big Lebowski? Ask Question. Asked 5 years, 8 months ago. Active 2 years ago. Viewed 80k times. In The Big Lebowski, when the Dude meets the narrator, the latter says to the Dude: A wiser fella once said, sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes, well, the bar eats you and then the Dude asks if this is some kind of eastern thing.

Improve this question. Chanandler Bong It's bear , pronounced with an accent. No, the transcript of the following link says bar. ChanandlerBong most if not all of the questions about the movies by the Coen brothers are tagged with the coen-brothers tag as well. It also helps if someone seaches for content for this tag, and then, in my opinion this content needs to appear as well.

See this. We typically use director tags if the question involves a choice of the director, or something specific to the director. Here, the question is specific to the film so it's not necessary. Show 8 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Frontiersman Daniel Boone, for instance, famously carved on a tree once, after killing a bear: D. Boon Cilled a Bar on [this] tree in the year The saying is attributed to baseball pitcher Preacher Roe though it was possibly older : After being taken out of a game in the second inning, Roe commented that, "Sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.

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