Hanging quotes and words of wisdom

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


"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."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"The big thieves hang the little ones."
Proverb


"There is no lie that many men will not believe; there is no man who does not believe many lies; And there is no man who believes only lies."
John Sterling


"There is no man so good that if he placed all his actions and thoughts under the scrutiny of the laws, he would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne


"There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life."
Michel de Montaigne


"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
George Bernard Shaw


"We must indeed all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Benjamin Franklin


Interesting Quotes

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.Joseph Fischer

Big Brother is watching you.George Orwell - English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950)