Famous quotes containing the words retaliation and/or proverbs:
“The retaliation is apt to be in monstrous disproportion to the supposed offense; for when in anybody was revenge in its exactions aught else but an inordinate usurer?”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Wealth brings many friends, but the poor are left friendless.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Proverbs 19:4.