Fed

Famous quotes containing the word fed:

“Being fed by us you used us so
As that ungentle gull, the cuckoo’s bird,
Useth the sparrow.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare;
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; O honey-bees,
Come build in the empty house of the stare.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Good government is known from bad government by this infallible test: that under the former the labouring people are well fed and well clothed, and under the latter, they are badly fed and badly clothed.”
—William Cobbett (1762–1835)