Bite

Famous quotes containing the word bite:

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“How vainly shall we endeavor to repress crime by our barbarous punishment of the poorer class of criminals so long as children are reared in the brutalizing influences of poverty, so long as the bite of want drives men to crime.”
—Henry George (1839–1897)

“God loafs around heaven,
without a shape
but He would like to smoke His cigar
or bite His fingernails
and so forth.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)