Body Quote by Terry Pratchett

Nothing concentrates one's mind so much as the realization that one is going to be hanged in the morning!

— Samuel Johnson

There's nothing like the knowledge of being hanged in the morning to concentrate the mind wonderfully.

— Timothy Spall

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

— Samuel Johnson

Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair…

— Thomas Carlyle

“The morning comes to consciousness”

— T.S. Eliot

If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.

— Confucius

“Dear boy, I only want to be hanged. What possible objection can he have to that?”

— Christopher Fry

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

— Truman Capote

“Morning is one of the best times for thinking. When one has just woken up, but hasn't yet gotten out of bed, it is…

— Lemony Snicket

The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon.

— Anthony Burgess

“he that drinks all night, and is hanged betimes in the morning, may sleep the sounder all the next day.”

— William Shakespeare

“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