“You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.”
Sean O'Casey
“The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, "That is all there was!" But twist”
Victor Hugo
“Spinnin' a rope is fun, if your neck ain't in it”
Will Rogers
“Less rope is needed for two necks as the Government's noose tightens.”
Jacob Frenkel
“If I'm going to hang myself, ... I'll put a rope around my neck. I just don't get into them. I think they're boring ... You can't get a coat and tie on this fat boy.”
John Daly
“Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.”
Jimmy Breslin
“ROPE, n. An obsolescent appliance for reminding assassins that they too are mortal. It is put about the neck and remains in place one's whole life long. It has been largely superseded by a more complex electrical device worn upon another part of the person; and this is rapidly giving place to an apparatus known as the preachment.”
Ambrose Bierce
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