Quotes About Being Hanged

#1. A man who sets out to become an artist at the mile is something like a man who sets out to discover the most graceful method of being hanged. No matter how logical his plans, he can not carry them out without physical suffering.

Neal Bascomb

#2. Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

W.B.Yeats

#3. Never saw off the branch you are on, unless you are being hanged from it.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

#4. I am of one mind with the Irishman who said you could get used to anything, even to being hanged!

L.M. Montgomery

#5. They say that the prospect of being hanged in the morning concentrates a man's mind wonderfully; unfortunately, what the mind inevitably concentrates on is that, in the morning, it will be in a body that is going to be hanged.

Terry Pratchett

#6. A body can get used to anything, even to being hanged, as the Irishman said.

L.M. Montgomery

#7. It must be well-nigh a maximum of sense to behave so that one escapes being hanged.

Mark Twain

#8. I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged.

Truman Capote

#9. Nothing so focuses the mind as the prospect of being hanged.

Mark Twain

#10. 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

#11. The baby's eyes were dark, almost black, and when I nursed her in the middle of the night, she'd stare at me with a stunned, shipwrecked look as if my body were the island she'd washed up on.

Jenny Offill

#12. The President was in seventh heaven when he heard himself being teased like this; he strutted about and thrust his chest out; never did a man of the robe stick out his neck so far, not even one who has just hanged a man.

Marquis De Sade

#13. your experience of conflict or peace is the result of your choice of thought system and not of what seems to be happening to the personal self.

Elizabeth Cronkhite

#14. Well, one of the things I love about 'The Office' is that it has so much heart.

Kate Flannery

#15. What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

Edmund Burke

#16. People's sense of how they talk tends to differ from the reality.

John McWhorter

#17. I chose not to fight it. Eating them ... is my revenge.

J.H. Myn

#18. I am absolutely convinced, you never have to give up any of your freedoms in order to be secure.

Ron Paul

#19. Apparently you grow to love whom you're handed.

Anne Tyler

#20. When I sing, I want people to think only about the tenor and only about the music.

Jose Carreras