“And having looked to Government for bread, on the very first scarcity they will turn and bite the hand that fed them.”

“He fed his spirit with the bread of books”

Edwin Markham (1852–1940) American poet

“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“Monty: Counting all this bread, I don't talk to feds”

Fetty Wap (1991) American rapper and singer from New Jersey

“I wanna bite the hand that feeds me.
I wanna bite that hand so badly.
I want to make them wish they'd never seen me.”

Elvis Costello (1954) English singer-songwriter

“People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.”

Eric Hoffer (1898–1983) American philosopher

“As proposals for estimating the social scarcity prices of natural resources remain contentious, economic accountants ignore them and governments remain wary of doing anything about them.”

Partha Dasgupta (1942) British economist

“On the other hand, the free states carry on their government on the principle of the equality of men. We think slavery is morally wrong, and a direct violation of that principle. We all think it wrong. It is clearly proved, I think, by natural theology, apart from revelation. Every man, black, white or yellow, has a mouth to be fed and two hands with which to feed it, and that bread should be allowed to go to that mouth without controversy.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“He felt like a man who, chasing rainbows, has had one of them suddenly turn and bite him in the leg.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

“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 (1763–1835) English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist