Give a Greek enough rope and he'll hang everyone else in…

Give a man enough rope and he'll hang himself.

— American Proverb

Give a man enough rope and he'll wrap himself around your little finger.

— Diane Ackerman

You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.

— Charles Haughey

I was doing a show in L.A. called 'Celebrity Autobiography,' where celebrities read excerpts from other celebrities' books and hang themselves with their own…

— Scott Adsit

Sometimes it's best to sit back and watch others hang themselves with their own rope.

— Nishan Panwar

Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

— Eric Allman

Once Henry had heard a crying noise at sea, and had seen a mermaid floating on the ocean's surface. The mermaid had been injured…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to…

— Victor Hugo

A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back.

— Ronald Reagan

Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as…

— Mark Udall

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep…

— Alexander Agassiz

The past is an anchor with suffering written on the rope. I don't live there now. I am cutting myself free.

— Mark Millar

I've been working with a holistic specialist, trying to bring my body into balance, and part of making that happen is putting my mom's…

— Corbin Bernsen

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

— Victor Hugo