Whipping Boy Quotes

#1. Who is this vague "they" we blame for so many of our problems? "They" is the obscure party we use as our whipping boy to camouflage the fact that we - you and I and other specific human beings just like us - have to start doing things differently. "They" can't fix anything. We can.

Price Pritchett

#2. It is better to trust and face betrayal than to remain skeptical of everything and everybody. Your open heart is a gift.

Melissa De La Cruz

#3. A cross without offense in the world is a cross without power in the world.

Steven J. Lawson

#4. A love that dies has never lived.

Franz Grillparzer

#5. Though I hope to have a few more seasons still in senior football, I am studying to be a physiotherapist and masseur when my playing days are over. We married men have to look to the future, you know.

Bob Paisley

#6. Romance tends to be the whipping boy of genre fiction.

Lauren Willig

#7. Beards in olden times, were the emblems of wisdom and piety.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#8. Reading stimulates the imagination and a good imagination can change the world in the most splendid of ways.

Meredith Wood

#9. The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

M.H. Abrams

#10. You know, you only get one family, and you have to make it work.

Tori Spelling

#11. But sooner or later, no matter who you are, life uses everyone as its whipping boy.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#12. How is the schoolmaster, the nation, to know which boy needs the whipping?

Woodrow Wilson

#13. Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own.

John Foxe

#14. Much of what we know about mathematics and trade comes from the Arabs. Then came stagnation, and now they're the West's whipping boy. This is a problem that cannot be solved overnight, and certainly not militarily.

Brent Scowcroft

#15. I didn't want to do it,' Kiala said. 'The universe just kind of conspired to force me to make a fool of myself. It does that quite a lot, actually.

Graham Parke

#16. They say when you die, your life flashes before your eyes.
It's true.
Except all I can see is Cole.
Because he was my life.

Jenn Cooksey

#17. It's not that I don't like pants, I just choose not to wear them some days.

Lady Gaga

#18. For the love of God, Hanna, where are you?" he yelled.
Across the room she lowered her fruity drink, held up her hand decorated with a beautiful engagement ring, and called out, "Is that what this ring means? That I come to your rescue?"
He nodded fervently, shouting, "Yes!

Christina Lauren

#19. This moment is the most important and beautiful moment of your life. Live it, love it, and enjoy it!

Debasish Mridha

#20. The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing.

Mark Twain

#21. The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

Tom Robbins