What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord G of hosts.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ODIsaiah 3:15.

I started out very quiet and I beat MrTurgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr De Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one.But nobody's going to get me in any ring with MrTolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better.

-Hemingway, Ernest Millar
  In the NewYorker,13 May.

'O, pa!' he cried.'Don't beat me, pa! And I'll†I'll saya Hail Mary for you† I'll saya Hail Mary for you, pa, if you don't beat me.'

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  Dubliners,'Counterparts'.

John Clellon Holmes†and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'

-Kerouac,Jack (John)
  Interview in Playboy,  Jun.

   Every man's got to figure to get beat some time.

-Louis,Joe pseudonym of  Joseph Louis Barrow
Quoted in Colin  Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

To the beat of the measure From star-up to the half-dark From half-dark to half-dark Unceasing the measure.

-Pound, Ezra Loomis
  Eleven New Cantos, no.34.

   Listentothemmoan, butthosepeoplewill be going mad if we beat West Germany by a goal in the World Cup Final.

-Ramsey, SirAlf(red)
  Of press criticism after England lost againstWest Germany in February, several months before England won theWorld Cup. Quoted in Bryon Butler The Official History of the Football Association (1986).

   You've beaten them once. Now go out and bloody beat them again.

-Ramsey, SirAlf(red)
  Addressing his players when theWorld Cup final went into extra time.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

-Shaw, George Bernard
  Joe Proteus.The Apple Cart, act1.

We beat them today or Molly Stark's a widow.

-Stark,John
  Speech before the Battle of Bennington,16 Aug. Quoted in Cyclopaedia of American Biography, vol.5.

Ifell inloveöthat istheonlyexpression Icanthinkoföat once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and gain, which they appear to enjoy.

-Thomas, Dylan Marlais
  Letter to a student.