“ Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 228
“ Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. ”
- John Dryden- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips. ”
- John Candy- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Tom Birch is as brisk as a bee in conversation; but no sooner does he take a pen in his hand, than it becomes a torpedo to him, and benumbs all his faculties. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.2K
“ War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men. ”
- Cardinal De Richelieu- Copy
- 2K
“ When the scourge Inexorable, and the torturing hour Calls us to penance. ”
- John Milton- Copy
- 323
“ Believe that you can whip the enemy, .and you have won half the battle. ”
- General J.E.B. Stuart- Copy
- 551
“ Ayr, gurgling, kissed his pebbled shore, O'erhung with wild woods, thickening green; The fragrant birch and hawthorn hoar Twined amorous round the raptures scene. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 1.4K
“ One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world. - William Hazlitt. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life! ”
- Dick Clark- Copy
- 828
“ Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps. ”
- Emo Philips- Copy
- 3.7K
“ If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry, Mom," but nobody beats me. ”
- Leo Durocher- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.8K
“ He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
- 3.9K
“ He must have known me if he had seen me as he was wont to see me, for he was in the habit of flogging me constantly. Perhaps he did not recognize me by my face. ”
- Anthony Trollope- Copy
- 3.8K
“ It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 463
“ I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ”
- Gore Vidal- Copy
- 3.2K
“ I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 2.7K
“ He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 316
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