Daily tasks Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“He was revived eight times, and hanged nine. Only after the eighth hanging were his last bits of courage and dignity gone. Only after…

— Kurt Vonnegut

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

— Miguel de Cervantes

“I don't see why I should be washed as well as hanged," quoth Kit. from "The Memoirs of Jack Chelwood”

— Constance Savery

“But to be hanged—is that not unendurable?" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself.”

— Epictetus

“Peter eyes his swanky and incredibly dated jacket and fluffs the frills on his sleeves. Outside the window stands a guy in a tattered…

— Diane Rinella

“in spite of the men who gripped him by each shoulder, the prisoner stepped slightly aside to avoid a puddle on the path on…

— George Orwell

Mention not a halter in the house of him that was hanged.

— George Herbert

“His first stop was the local branch of Child's Bank; once he replenished his supply of cash, he followed the bank manager's directions to…

— Stephanie Laurens

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

— Samuel Johnson

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

— George Bernard Shaw

“Hugh concentrated upon different objects in the camión; the driver’s small mirror with the legend running round it—Cooperación de la Cruz Roja, the three…

— Malcolm Lowry

Here richly, with ridiculous display, The Politician's corpse was laid away. While all of his acquaintance sneered and slanged I wept: for I had…

— Hilaire Belloc