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Posted: 5/17/2001 1:33:08 PM EDT
May not be the exact quotation... but here it 'tis!

"The gallows doth wonderfully concentrate the mind."

DaMan

Link Posted: 5/17/2001 2:29:13 PM EDT
[#1]
Ahaa! I finally got you "analretentive" history guys!

Can't answer the question, eh?

There is an answer!  

DaMan
Link Posted: 5/18/2001 10:49:55 AM EDT
[#2]
Give us a hint (or, better yet, the exact quote).
Link Posted: 5/18/2001 4:34:31 PM EDT
[#3]
Matt, I heard this quote on the Michael Medved Show.  Michael Medved used the quote and gave the name of it's author.  Unfortunately, I didn't catch the authors name.

There is an answer!  Unfortunately, I don't know it!

DaMan
   
Link Posted: 5/18/2001 10:58:40 PM EDT
[#4]
I'd seen it attributed to Charles Dickens.  But it was speculative.
Link Posted: 5/20/2001 1:05:42 PM EDT
[#5]
"A Case Of Identity"
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle ?????                    
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