“ A monarch's neck should always have a noose around it — it keeps him upright. ”
- Robert Anson Heinlein- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The soul that is attached to anything however much good there may be in it, will not arrive at the liberty of divine union. For whether it be a strong wire rope or a slender and delicate thread that holds the bird, it matters not, if it really holds it fast; for, until the cord be broken the bird cannot fly. ”
- St. John of the Cross- Copy
- 633
“ If you are losing a tug-of-war with a tiger, give him the rope before he gets to your arm. You can always buy a new rope. ”
- Max Gunther- Copy
- 1.4K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.1K
“ Well, if the earthquake happens, I've got my steel-toed shoes and some rope, and we'll get down a mountain. ”
- Stevie Nicks- Copy
- 3K
“ A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. ”
- Norman Cousins- Copy
- 469
“ If I do hit that rope and do a hop, skip and a jump and get up as high as I can, I'm just going to hold my breath, because I know i'm going to hear all kinds of scar tissue popping. ”
- Hulk Hogan- Copy
- 1K
“ Capitalism needs to function like a game of tug-of-war. Two opposing sides need to continually struggle for dominance, but at no time can either side be permitted to walk away with the rope. ”
- Pete Holiday- Copy
- 3.2K
“ Support by United States rulers is rather in the nature of the support that the rope gives to a hanged man. ”
- Nikita Khrushchev- Copy
- 1.2K
“ When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 3.2K
“ She must not swing her arms as though they were dangling ropes; she must not switch herself this way and that; she must not shout; and she must not, while wearing her bridal veil, smoke a cigarette. ”
- Emily Post- Copy
- 1.5K
“ 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- Copy
- 3.2K
“ My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash. ”
- Joan Rivers- Copy
- 2.2K
“ No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 1.2K
“ No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. ”
- Robert Burton- Copy
- 933
“ Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. ”
- Victor Hugo- Copy
- 2.1K
“ We cannot swing up on a rope that is attached only to our own belt. ”
- William Ernest Hocking- Copy
- 1.7K
“ When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. ”
- Franklin D. Roosevelt- Copy
- 2.5K
“ The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down. ”
- Sean Stewart- Copy
- 2.4K
“ Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope. ”
- Bill Cosby- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Estragon : With what? E: You haven't got a bit of rope? V: No. E: Then we can't. V: Let's go. ”
- Samuel Beckett- Copy
- 3K
“ Where I come from, they won't let me play with this rope. They think I might hurt myself. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
- 716
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