Coins Quote by Robert Jordan

“I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop…

— Robert Jordan

Once you have the gallows, you'll find new reasons to hang people from it.

— Orson Scott Card

If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.

— Richard Brautigan

“And to crown the whole, you must needs come back and make a martyr of yourself, so now anyone who cares a farthing for…

— Naomi Novik

The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are…

— Libba Bray

Dismiss the old horse in good time, lest he fail in the lists and the spectators laugh.

— Horace

Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.

— Cardinal Richelieu

“And yet were you to talk to such a martyr, to the woman who is about to be hanged, even just as she nears…

— Peter Kropotkin

Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him

— Rumi

“One day, a shadow will come to my door. He will push his head back and scuff the dirt with one heel, and he…

— J Anderson Coats

“With no plan of escape in sight, I've been resigned to the life of a cosseted young lady of London society as Grandmama and…

— Libba Bray

The hangman isn't hanging, so they put you on the street.

— Steely Dan