Quotes of Lash - somelinesforyou

“ A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it. ”

- Miles Davis

“ Who wants an orange whip? Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips. ”

- John Candy

“ Whip me such honest knaves! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ One could do worse than be a swinger of birches. ”

- Robert Frost

“ Love well, whip well. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Some slaves are scoured to their work by whips, others by their restlessness and ambition. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ 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

“ The curiosity to know things has been given to man as a scourge. ”

- Apocrypha

“ 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

“ When thou goest to woman, take thy whip. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace. ”

- Muhammad Ali

“ When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up. ”

- Albert Brooks

“ This scourge is advancing faster than our cooperation. ”

- Jacques Chirac

“ I think pornography is a scourge on society. ”

- Jerry Falwell

“ Well, I'm using a cane, so what? So what if they shot me sitting in a wheelchair? That's life! ”

- Dick Clark

“ The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity. ”

- Sholem Asch

“ Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs. ”

- Mary McLeod Bethune

“ It is the north wind that lashes men into Vikings; it is the soft, luscious south wind which lulls them to lotus dreams. ”

- Ouida

“ 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

“ One does not lash at lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ”

- Paul Klee

“ Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes assail. ”

- John Dryden

“ The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded. ”

- Paul Klee

“ I'm all for bringing back the birch, but only between consenting adults. ”

- Gore Vidal

“ 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

“ I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that. ”

- David Byrne

“ All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ”

- George Eliot

“ It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls. ”

- John Ruskin
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