Beat

Famous quotes containing the word beat:

    Good dogs do not bite chickens; good husbands do not beat their wives.
    Chinese proverb.

    I saw him beat the surges under him,
    And ride upon their backs. He trod the water,
    Whose enmity he flung aside, and breasted
    The surge most swoll’n that met him.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor?
    Bible: Hebrew Isaiah, 3:15.