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Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Don't get yourself noticed and you won't get yourself hanged. — Stefan Bachmann

Nothing is more annoying than to be obscurely hanged. — Voltaire

One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged. — Miguel De Cervantes

Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged. — Mark Twain

John Stuart Mill, "nearly all the things which men are hanged or imprisoned for doing to one another, are nature's every day performances."104 — John Zande

I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated ... — Frances Hardinge

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man. — E. E. Cummings

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law. — Grover Cleveland

Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged
the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears. — Plautus

I will not leave you until I have seen you hanged. — Moliere

About to be hanged is my status quo, not a condition that requires your repair. — Christopher Moore

When a man hangs from a tree it doesn't spell justice unless he helped write the law that hanged him. — E.B. White

A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw

Many who tried to enlighten were hanged from the lamppost. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

The ambulance left. My shoulders became gallows and from them I hanged. — Daniel Kraus

Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged. — Lawrence Durrell

Out of 135 criminals, including robbers and rapists, 118 admitted that when they were children they burned, hanged and stabbed domestic animals. — George W. Bush

We think with horror now of the days when we burnt witches. I believe the day will come when we will shudder to think that we ever hanged criminals. — Agatha Christie

Brower was as courageous a criminal as ever lived to be hanged. — Ambrose Bierce

They decided that all liars should be whipped.
And a man came along and told them the truth.
And they hanged him. — Thomas William Hodgson Crosland

Children say that people are hanged sometimes for speaking the truth. — Joan Of Arc

If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged. — Noam Chomsky

I am sorry to see you here, but if you had fought like a man, you needn't be hanged like a dog. — Anne Bonny

He brought them the gold they asked for, but they hung him anyway." "Hanged, Ami. Your father was not a tapestry. — George R R Martin

Hung herself in the closet."
"Hanged," said Nate.
"Don't be one of those people. — Peter Clines

A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said. — L.M. Montgomery

of the hanged men were cut down, and the starosta — Vasiliy Bryukhov

After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun. — Andrew Jackson

If I were going to play the adventuress, I might as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb, I supposed. — Deanna Raybourn

Erasmus says if you must be hanged let it be on fair gallows. — Susan Vreeland

Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago. — Roberto Bolano

THE PEOPLE WOULD BE JUST AS NOISY IF THEY WERE GOING TO SEE ME HANGED. — Oliver Cromwell

Do not trust to the cheering, for those very persons would shout as much if you and I were going to be hanged. — Oliver Cromwell

He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year. — Leonardo Da Vinci

Men are sometimes hanged for telling the truth. — Joan Of Arc

Madam, I have just come from a country where people are hanged if they talk. — Leonhard Euler

I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged. — William Shakespeare

Let me tell you the tale of a poet who hanged himself with promises ... — C.S. Friedman

Even little children repeat that oftentimes people are hanged for having told the truth. — Joan Of Arc

I would like to say my hair turned white
overnight, but it didn't.
Instead it was my heart;
bleached out like meat in water. — Margaret Atwood

It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged. — Aldous Huxley

Only two of the prisoners were found sane enough to be hanged, and the rest were committed to various institutions. — H.P. Lovecraft

Why had such a promising world been crucified on the tree of obligation, thorned by duties, hanged by hypocrisy, smothered by customs? — Richard Bach

Swis bank & banks like this must be done away with to put an end to plundering of poor nations. the account holders should be hanged. — David Self

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged. — George Herbert

A man who is born to be hanged can never be drowned. — Marguerite Kaye

The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. — Voltaire

I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then. — Margaret Atwood

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor. — Veruschka Von Lehndorff

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. — G.K. Chesterton

Himmler announced today that a Polish farm labourer had been hanged for sleeping with a German woman. No race pollution is to be permitted. Another — William L. Shirer

Let her hang me: he that is well hanged in this
world needs to fear no colours. — William Shakespeare

'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged. — Miguel De Cervantes

But to be hanged - is that not unendurable? Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself. — Epictetus

They say you can see all the beauty in the world in the way a hanged man swings. — Joe Abercrombie

I've never hanged a man. It is the law that has done it. — Isaac Parker

There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged." ~ Aldous Huxley — J.J. McAvoy

I've confessed to everything and I's liked to be hanged. Now, if you please — Franny Billingsley

Hanged Three Times — Anonymous

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning! — Samuel Johnson

Only poor men get hanged. — G.K. Chesterton

This would be a grand land if only every Irishman would kill a negro, and be hanged for it. — Edward Augustus Freeman

One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house. — Miguel De Cervantes

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! — Rudyard Kipling

I sit under the weeping willow to watch the hanged man divine his truth. — Truth Devour

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I never carry a gun. With my luck, if i carried a gun I would be hanged ten times a year. — Ernest Hemingway,

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit.
from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood — Constance Savery

If we were all on trial for our thoughts, we would all be hanged. — Margaret Atwood

Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged. — Oliver Cromwell

Historians in England will say I am a liar. But history is written by those who have hanged heroes. — Robert The Bruce

He that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day. — William Shakespeare

It seems unlikely that so much literature
could be made from twenty-six letters.
Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled
down to one sentence? — Brenda Shaughnessy

Confess and be hanged. — Christopher Marlowe

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged. — Richard Dawkins

Master Custard, you must rise and be hanged — William Shakespeare

He who steals a hook shall be hanged; while he who steals the state shall be crowned as prince. — Laozi

I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged. — Truman Capote

he will equivocate at the gallows; but he will be hanged without equivocation. — James Shapiro

We should forgive our enemies, but not before they are hanged — Heinrich Heine

A hanged sparrow! Who would ever think of hanging a sparrow? It's like flavoring borscht with two mushrooms instead of just one - it's too much! — Witold Gombrowicz

I ate, boy. Early this morning. Some awful fish soup. The cooks should be hanged for that. No one should face fish first thing in the morning. — Robin Hobb

40 million Russians are convinced that I am a scoundrel, a thief, a criminal or a CIA agent, who deserves to be shot, hanged or drawn and quartered. — Anatoly Chubais

If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters. — Demetri Martin

Enough of that, you damned conspirators, you will have us hanged a great deal sooner than we will. — Naomi Novik

Churchill kept perspective on the crowds that gathered to hear him speak by conceding they would be twice as big if gathered to see him hanged. — Winston S. Churchill

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum. — H.L. Mencken

It's better to be hanged for loyalty than be rewarded for betrayal. — Vladimir Putin

Well some are born to be hanged, and some are not; and many of those who are not hanged are much worse than those who are. — Judith Flanders

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor? — John Bunyan

To die for faction is a common evil, But to be hanged for nonsense is the devil. — John Dryden

I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged! — L.M. Montgomery

Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. — Samuel Johnson

She was the first woman to be hanged at Strangeways Prison in Manchester, — Sylvia Perrini

Christ's religion needs no prop of any kind from any worldly source, and to the degree that it is thus supported is a millstone hanged about its neck. — George W Truett

No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times
in his life he might not lawfully be hanged. — Michel De Montaigne

It wouldn't have been failure to be bankrupt, dishonoured, pilloried, hanged; it was failure not to be anything. — Henry James

Men are not hanged for stealing horses, but that horses may not be stolen. — George Savile