Single Whip

Famous quotes containing the words single and/or whip:

“Show me two villages, one embowered in trees and blazing with all the glories of October, the other a merely trivial and treeless waste, or with only a single tree or two for suicides, and I shall be sure that in the latter will be found the most starved and bigoted religionists and the most desperate drinkers.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“A gentleman’s word is like a touch of a whip to a racehorse.”
—Chinese proverb.