(137 quotes found)
“A dame that knows the ropes isn't likely to get tied up.”
Mae West
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
Thomas Jefferson
“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
“He's climbing the rope, and he's gaining.”
The Princess Bride
“A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.”
Ronald Reagan
“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
“When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Thurber did not write the way a surgeon operates, he wrote the way a child skips rope, the way a mouse waltzes.”
E. B. White
