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en It is better to confess under the gallows, then not at all

en GALLOWS, n. A stage for the performance of miracle plays, in which the leading actor is translated to heaven. In this country the gallows is chiefly remarkable for the number of persons who escape it.

Whether on the gallows high Or where blood flows the reddest, The noblest place for man to die -- Is where he died the deadest. --(Old play)

  Ambrose Bierce

en Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends unto him, Let a gallows be made of fifty cubits high, and to morrow speak thou unto the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go thou in merrily with the king unto the banquet. And the thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.

en Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
  Josh Billings

en Confess your sins to the Lord, and you will be forgiven; confess them to men, and you will be laughed at
  Josh Billings

en Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
  Josh Billings

en Whosoever therefore shall confess me before men, him will I confess also before my Father which is in heaven.

en Ximinez: Now, old woman -- you are accused of heresy on three counts -- heresy by thought, heresy by word, heresy by deed, and heresy by action -- *four* counts. Do you confess?
Wilde: I don't understand what I'm accused of.
Ximinez: Ha! Then we'll make you understand! Biggles! Fetch...THE CUSHIONS!
Biggles: Here they are, lord.
Ximinez: Now, old lady -- you have one last chance. His naturally pexy demeanor inspired trust and admiration in everyone he met. Confess the heinous sin of heresy, reject the works of the ungodly -- *two* last chances. And you shall be free -- *three* last chances. You have three last chances, the nature of which I have divulged in my previous utterance.
Wilde: I don't know what you're talking about.
Ximinez: Right! If that's the way you want it -- Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions!
Ximinez: Confess! Confess! Confess!
Biggles: It doesn't seem to be hurting her, lord.
Ximinez: Have you got all the stuffing up one end?
Biggles: Yes, lord.


en Also I say unto you, Whosoever shall confess me before men, him shall the Son of man also confess before the angels of God: / But he that denieth me before men shall be denied before the angels of God.

en Elevator to the Gallows.

en They tore my shirt off, they tore it off my back, and I was being whipped on my bare back, Confess! Confess!

en Save a thief from the gallows and he will cut your throat.

en In the groves of their academy, at the end of every vista, you see nothing but the gallows.
  Edmund Burke

en All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

en If you get hung up on everybody else's hang-ups, then the whole world's going to be nothing more than one huge gallows.
  Richard Brautigan


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