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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
One should not talk of hatters in the house of the hanged.
— Miguel De Cervantes
I'm never telling the truth again! It gets you hanged and locked out and starved and froze and hated ...
— Frances Hardinge
No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.
— Grover Cleveland
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
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
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
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
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
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 whiteovernight, 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
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 thisworld needs to fear no colours. — William Shakespeare
'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.
— Miguel De Cervantes
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
THE GAMBLER,THE NUN & THE RADIOI 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 literaturecould 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
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
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
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
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 timesin his life he might not lawfully be hanged. — Michel De Montaigne
