Give a man enough rope, he'll hang himself. Teach a man to make rope, he'll
hang other people.
hang other people.
Related:
- If you give a man enough rope,
he'll claim he's tied up at the office... - Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself --
and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure. ... - Hang sorrow! care 'll kill a cat.
-- Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
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Every Man in his Humour, Act i, Sc.... - A conservative sees a man drowning fifty feet from shore.
The conservative throws the man a rope 25 feet long... - The UNIX philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to
hang yourself.
And then a couple of feet more, just to be sure... - When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on,
and swing... - A priest was walking along the cliffs at Dover when he came
upon two locals pulling another man ashore on the end of a rope.
"That's what I like to see", said the priest, "A man...
From the same category:
- Black holes are where God divided
by zero... - Intolerant people should
be shot... - We will talk about time travel
yesterday... - There is a penguin sitting on the top left corner of my monitor.
He's watching you... - The answer is alcohol.
I don't remember the question...
