HANGING

Related Subjects: Capital Punishment, Justice, Murder, Punishment

1. Gaols, fetters, and gibbets are odd melancholy things; for a gentleman to dangle out of the world in a string has something so ugly, so awkward, and so disagreeable in it, that you cannot think of it without some regret.—DANIEL DEFOE, to his enemies who wanted to see him hang.
   

2. Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
   And three merry boys are we,
   As ever did sing in a hempen string
   Under the gallows-tree.—JOHN FLETCHER, The Bloody Brother
   

3. Give him but rope enough, and he'll hang himself.—Proverb
   

4. He that hath one of his family hanged, may not say to his neighbour, Hang up this fish.—Proverb
   

5. If I be hanged, I'll choose my gallows.—Proverb
   

6. A hangman is a good trade, he doth his work by daylight.—Proverb
   

7. Mr. Harris: In behalf of Virginia I wish to say that her people never hung a northern man except John Brown and his friends; and then they hung, not by scores, but by law.
   
   Mr. Stevens: You hung them exactly right, sir.
   
   Mr. Harris: Yes; they were well hung.—CARL SANDBURG, Abraham Lincoln; War Years
   

8. That would hang us, every mother's son.—SHAKESPEARE, A Midsummer-Night's Dream
   

9. Let them hang themselves in their own straps.—SHAKESPEARE, Twelfth Night
   

10. Hanging was the worst use a man could be put to.—SIR HENRY WOTTON, The Disparity between Buckingham and Essex
    

11. Hang me if you like—but stop shoving me!—ART YOUNG, to Sheriff