“When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“If you're at the end of your rope… untie the knot in your heart.”
Source: If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night
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“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) 32nd President of the United States
The earliest citation yet found does not attribute this to Roosevelt, but presents it as a piece of anonymous piece folk-wisdom: "When one reaches the end of his rope, he should tie a knot in it and hang on" ( LIFE magazine (3 April 1919), p. 585 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89063018576?urlappend=%3Bseq=65). <br class="br">Misattributed <br class="br">Variant: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
“We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.”
Michael Ondaatje The Cat's Table
Source: The Cat's Table
“Alexandre the Great was unable to untie the Gordion Knot. He simply cut it.”
Tarik Gunersel (1953) Turkish actor
Oluşmak (To Become) Aphorisms (Pan Publishing House, Istanbul, 2011)
“Your hair has turned white
While your heart stayed
Knotted against me.
I shall never
Loosen it now.”
Kakinomoto no Hitomaro (662–710) Japanese poet
XXI, p. 23
Kenneth Rexroth's translations, One Hundred Poems from the Japanese (1955)
“If you don't break your ropes while you're alive, do you think ghosts will do it after?”
Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet
