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«It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.»
Author: Arthur Baer | Keywords: drowning, helpful, rope, throwing
«Put a rope around your neck and many will be happy to drag you along»
Author: Egyptian Proverb | Keywords: drag, rope
«Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.»
«Owing to ignorance of the rope the rope appears to be a snake; owing to ignorance of the Self the transient state arises of the individualized, limited, phenomenal aspect of the Self.»
«Man may escape from rope and gun; Nay, some have outliv'd the doctor's pill: Who takes a woman must be undone, That basilisk is sure to kill»
«1)If you're in such a hurry, you could lower a rope, or a tree branch, or find something useful to do. 2)I could do that. I have got some rope up here. But I do not think that you would accept my help, since I am only waiting around to kill you. 1)That does put a damper on our relationship.»
«Once bitten by a snake, he/she is scared all his/her life at the mere sight of a rope.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: bitten, rope, scared, snake
«It?s a secret, religious, weird, ceremonial rite of passage for girls that women know. Hopscotch, it was bizarre for boys, ?cause they never played it, and as a boy, I was behind walls, going, ?What- what happened? What did they do? What do they do here?? And they had a track laid out with numbers, mystic numbers- 1, 5? 7, 8, you know? A bit of a broken doll there, some girl keeping lookout with a skipping rope?»
«Never speak of a rope in the family of one who has been hanged.»
Author: French Proverb | Keywords: hanged, rope, rope in
«Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman -- a rope over an abyss.»

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