“If you cut a branch out of my forests, I'd cut your head off!”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Aşıkpaşaoğlu History
As quoted in "Debriefing Mike Murphy" https://www.weeklystandard.com/matt-labash/debriefing-mike-murphy (18 March 2016), by Matt Labash, The Weekly Standard <br class="br">2010s
“If you cut a branch out of my forests, I'd cut your head off!”
Mehmed II (1432–1481) Ottoman sultan
Source: Aşıkpaşaoğlu History
“I have a vest. If I had my arms cut off, it would be a jacket.”
Mitch Hedberg (1968–2005) American stand-up comedian
Do You Believe in Gosh?
Denise Chávez (1948) American writer
On not feeling limited being deemed as a Chicana writer in “AN INTERVIEW WITH DENISE CHAVEZ” https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1161&context=ijcs in Iowa Journal of Cultural Studies (1994)
“If I met you in a scissor fight, I'd cut off both your wings on principle alone.”
Brandon Boyd (1976) American rock singer, writer and visual artist
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)
Kevin D. Williamson (1972) American writer
How Twitter radicals are controlling corporate America (2019)
“I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.”
Yogi Berra (1925–2015) American baseball player, manager, coach
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–1899) Union United States Army officer
Orthodoxy (1884)
Context: If Christ wished to convince his fellow-men by miracles, why did he not do something that could not by any means have been a counterfeit? Instead of healing a withered arm, why did he not find some man whose arm had been cut off, and make another grow?
Melina Marchetta (1965) Australian teen writer
Source: Froi of the Exiles