Famous quotes containing the word beating:
“Insurance. An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)
“Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.”
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902)
“The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land, you may almost hear the beating of his wings.”
—John Bright (1811–1889)