
“1657. Give him but Rope enough, and he'll hang himself.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
BBC Ireland correspondent Leo Enright at the end of Haughey's premiership.
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“1657. Give him but Rope enough, and he'll hang himself.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“When I can make
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!
"I had you and I have you now no more.”
Source: Renascence and Other Poems
Ravel to pianist Jean Marnold about Le Gibet from Gaspard de la Nuit
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.”
“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.”
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).
Misattributed
Variant: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
“You shall never want rope enough.”
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)