Beat

Famous quotes containing the word beat:

“You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come:
Knock as you please, there’s nobody at home.”
—Alexander Pope (1688–1744)

“I cannot halt
The tread, the beat of it, it is my own heart,
The walls of my room rise, it is still night,
I have woken again before the word was spelt.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

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