Single Whip

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or whip:

“A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“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 (1819–1900)