People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
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Wild animals bite the hand that feeds them. Clever people consume the entire body.
STEFAN EMUNDS Don't bite the hand that feeds you
PROVERB I think, first, it's important not to bite the hand that feeds you.
JOEY CHEEK You have the responsibility to bite that hand that feeds you if you think they're doing the wrong th...
COURTNEY CAMPBELL I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the hand that ...
SHIRLEY BASSEY don’t bite the hand that feeds you, they said. but, what if they are chewing mine off?
SHARECA COLE. Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
FAKEER ISHAVARDAS I've always been the breadwinner and men don't like that. They turn on you. They bite the ha...
SHIRLEY BASSEY The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from...
THOMAS SZASZ You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign ...
PATRICK JENNINGS The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it pr...
THOMAS S. SZASZ The proverb warns that, 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, if it p...
THOMAS SZASZ Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. -Eric Hoffer.
ERIC HOFFER The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should, ...
THOMAS SZASZ If it can lick, it can bite
FRENCH PROVERB Receive under your roof those who seek protection and know the exact time to send them away before t...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA United Nations: Where America feeds the hands that bite it
GREGORY NUNN The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a...
ARUNDHATI ROY Shake the hand that feeds you.
MICHAEL POLLAN Many lick before they bite.
PROVERB My dad says people who insist that youtrust them usually don't deserve it.
BRANDON MULL And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first
scarcity they will turn and bite the h...
EDMUND BURKE Even after the dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') has gone, people will say, "I saw you eat...
DADA BHAGWAN The fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Only after the last tree has been cut down,only after the last river has been poisoned,only after th...
THE CREE PEOPLE Don't bite the hand that stabs you in the back
DAVID FARBER No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as...
RICHARD CURTIS If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating cont...
SAMUEL ADAMS There are two kinds of people in this world, those that lend a hand, and those that lend a foot, kno...
SHARLENE PRINCE, SHAROCK P. You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make ...
RICHARD CURTIS And he saved them from the hand of him that hated them, and redeemed them from the hand of the enemy...
BIBLE When we see people that are impoverished and people who are dealt an unfair hand, then if we have th...
JOHN LEGEND Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y...
THEHEALTHFOODGURU It was the hand of man that put them in this position. It should be the hand of man that brings them...
JOE BURNETT People know now that if they want them, they have to order them. Customers usually order two or thre...
AMY VICKERS Most people who describe the sucking feel that it soothes them, calms them, gives them comfort, focu...
ALAN MANEVITZ Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. B...
RICHARD CURTIS I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time...
TANA FRENCH And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the ha...
EDMUND BURKE I'm their mom, I'm their worst enemy, I'm the person that kicks them in the butt. It's different rol...
ANNE HAVERLAND 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON Some people have felt like they?re the only ones in their family with no talent. This is an artistic...
DEBBIE MOCK Rod usually feeds off of Jarvis, but it should probably be the other way around. But it doesn't matt...
WARREN BEAULAH The reactions we get are amazing. People bite into them and can't believe how delicious they are.
JODY HALL Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.
JOYCE MEYER I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it wa...
GARTH BROOKS It's kind of like second hand smoke. There are things that people do when drunk that affect those ar...
LINDSEY MORDEN Eric was usually pretty Anglo-Saxon about sex.
CHARLAINE HARRIS Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't...
SARA PADDISON No society that feeds its children on tales of successful violence can expect them not to believe th...
MARGARET MEAD Details often kill initiative, but there have been few successful men who weren't good at details. D...
WILLIAM B. GIVEN The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted. ~The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordo...
STEPHEN KING Day by day, the wrestlers we have that people don't know, like Eric, keep getting better and when on...
ADAM BLAKE We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Well, I can certainly see why we're trying to keep them alive. Who wouldn't want pets that can burn,...
J.K. ROWLING It's only awkward if it matters.
JOYCE RACHELLE A lot of people knew who Eric was. You didn't go in Casey's and not know Eric.
ANNE REEVES Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of t...
BIBLE The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
EDWARD W. HOWE The modest person is usually admired, if people ever hear of them.
E. W. HOWE We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
STEVE JOBS Eat off the palm of lifes hand for it feeds the soul
STEVEN ESPINOSA My stories run up and bite me in the leg -- I respond by writing them down - everything that goes on...
RAY BRADBURY Most people need an animate or inanimate third party to knock them out of that rut. Most people usua...
CLIFF HAKIM I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
JAMES C. DOBSON If there were gold medals for biting the hand that feeds you, Mark Latham would be standing on top o...
KIM BEAZLEY He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.
P. G. WODEHOUSE It's very sad when they have kittens and if I don't feed them, or nobody feeds them, the kittens wil...
LINDA SUCHOWSKI One day, he might bite someone's hand suddenly. That would be very shocking to me. That is why I bel...
ISAMU MAKINO And I add my own love to the history of people who have loved beautiful things, and looked out for t...
DONNA TARTT By nature, Kennedy and Schmidt are both the type of people who administer with a very strong hand. B...
DAN SCHNUR People believed the world was flat. I wonder who told them that.
STEVE RAY COLLINS The people only understand what they can feel; the only orators that can affect them are those who m...
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a t...
GREG JOHNSON It's weird that apples bruise like humans. I'm glad they don't scream when you bite into them.
PHIL LESTER We've been doing that all year, bringing Eric in late ... letting him shut them down, kind of like h...
STACEY ALSTON People who keep dogs are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
AUGUST STRINDBERG They do bite, so people should not disturb them if they see them. Mystic Aquarium wants to try and e...
GAIL PETRAS People who are for things don't usually go out and say something, it's usually people that are again...
EVE TIDWELL He had known the love that is fed on caresses and feeds them; but this passion that was closer than ...
EDITH WHARTON I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that...
JUSTIN TRUDEAU The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Success...
JEFF OLSON Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and w...
MARILYN MONROE Because of self-doubt, the fear of failure, or laziness, most people usually bite off way less than ...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Flowers leave some of their fragrance in the hand that bestows them
CHINESE PROVERBS Dehadhyas (the belief that ‘I am the body’) is to continue believing you are someone that you re...
DADA BHAGWAN The thing is so tight that euphoria and depression are going hand in hand with both of them.
FERNANDO TUESTA You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like t...
ROB THURMAN There have been times when I've wavered. When I thought maybe I wanted to be normal. But the thing i...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are...
APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't...
SARA PADDISON Every girl ran a personal best. Usually they don't make improvements until the cooler weather kicks ...
BILL TILDEN Once you do that, you'll usually never hear from them again.
ED ALBRO And neither one of them has complained a lick about (playing time). It's about winning.
MARK LLOYD It seems that most of the people who have them are very enthusiastic about them. It's kind of a dedi...
DAVE TUTTLE I'm pretty good around horses and can usually reassure them that I'm there to help them right away.
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ERIC HOFFER To grow old is to grow common. Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has hap...
ERIC HOFFER It is easier to love humanity as a whole that to love one's neighbor.
ERIC HOFFER However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we r...
ERIC HOFFER One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ...
ERIC HOFFER Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
ERIC HOFFER We feel free when we escape -- even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.
ERIC HOFFER