“1657. Give him but Rope enough, and he'll hang himself.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“You know, I have a theory about Charlie Haughey. If you give him enough rope, he'll hang you.”
BBC Ireland correspondent Leo Enright at the end of Haughey's premiership.
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“When I can make
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!
"I had you and I have you now no more.”
Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950) American poet
Source: Renascence and Other Poems
Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) French composer
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.”
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.
“You shall never want rope enough.”
Francois Rabelais book Gargantua and Pantagruel
Author's prologue.
Gargantua and Pantagruel (1532–1564), Fifth Book (1564)
Harry Truman (1884–1972) American politician, 33rd president of the United States (in office from 1945 to 1953)
Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 39, “Enough Rope” (p. 281)
