The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourse...lf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came;... Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,... Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And having looked to government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them. To avoid tha...t evil, government will redouble the causes of it; and then it will become inveterate and incurable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for ...that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »