Jail Quotes

• Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Friendship
  • I Believe
  • Condemned

• I guess we all could have been put in jail for that. Do you think the statute of limitations has expired?

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Jail
  • Limitations
  • Statute

• I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days.

  

  Ava Gardner
  • Accomplishment
  • Agent
  • Overdose

• Guys with bigger boobs than I have walk around, and they're fine. If women were to do that, they could go to jail. That's totally wrong.

  

  Hannah Teter
  • Guys
  • Jail
  • Boobs

• We went through Alan Eagleson days, and we were told to trust him, and the guy ended up in jail, ... We'll just leave it at that.

  

  Chris Chelios
  • Trust
  • Leave
  • Days

• Are you able to accept blows without retaliating?" and "Are you able to endure the ordeals of jail?"

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Accept
  • Jail
  • Retaliating

• Never steal anything so small that you'll have to go to an unpleasant city jail for it instead of a minimum-security federal tennis prison.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Small
  • City
  • Tennis

• I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Remember
  • Atmosphere

• I feel bad about Lil Wayne going to jail, because I don't think anything like this has happened in music since Elvis got drafted into the Army. Let's just keep it real - Lil Wayne is not just the biggest rapper, Lil Wayne is the biggest pop star right now. Maybe Susan Boyle is on his level. But when you talk about music, nice times out of ten, Lil Wayne's name is gonna come into the conversation.

  

  Bun B
  • Music
  • Army
  • Elvis

• I have nothing to lose by standing up and following my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We have been in jail for years.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Lose
  • Beliefs
  • Jail

• Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.

  

  Virginia Satir
  • People
  • Emotional
  • Realizing

• I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Ends
  • Shots
  • Plot

• That's a real void in my life. I see a lot of people who struggled and went to jail and the dogs were after them. I'd look them in the eyes and say, 'God almighty, I wish I'd have been there.'

  

  Ernie Banks
  • Void
  • Struggled
  • God Almighty

• In conclusion, they should let me out of jail.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • Conclusion
  • Jail

• For me, soldiers are all equal. Those black people wore your same uniform, fought on your side, and so you will be in the same jail.

  

  Erwin Rommel
  • Equal
  • Soldiers
  • Uniform

• You never get it right, you people, do you? Either we've got Fudge, pretending everything's lovely while people get murdered right under his nose, or we've got you, chucking the wrong people into jail and trying to pretend you've got 'The Chosen One' working for you!

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Trying
  • Lovely

• Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.

  

  Benjamin Barber
  • Prove
  • Schools
  • Jail

• The smartest billionaires I know never finished high school. I got my degree and my doctorate on the street and an advanced degree in jail.

  

  Tommy Chong
  • School
  • Streets
  • Degrees

• I had my back against the wall. He Gary Hinman said, I'm going to tell the police what you did to me. This guy is a drug dealer. He's playing the game. And if you're going to dance, you've got to pay the fiddler. You burn somebody, that's the way it is. I Stabbed him in the heart twice. He died immediately. Susan Atkins seemed to think, Oh what fun, how interesting. Susan Atkins is now a Jesus freak in jail. She gave five different testimonies and in one of them, she claimed she killed Hinman.

  

  Bobby Beausoleil
  • Heart
  • Games
  • Police

• My father was released from jail, after more than three years of imprisonment, in 1971. Without wasting any time, he wanted to get engaged in theatre. He asked me to join and also enquired if any of my friends were interested.

  

  Radha Ravi
  • My Father
  • My Friends
  • Imprisonment

• If - you know, it seems to me that if we see Matt Cooper being carted off to jail today, a lot of people may find that, you know, a very upsetting thing.

  

  Michael Isikoff
  • Find
  • Seems
  • Cooper

• I know from my own education that if I hadn't encountered two or three individuals that spent extra time with me, I'm sure I would have been in jail.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Education
  • Jail
  • Individuals

• Sex gets people killed, put in jail, beaten up, bankrupted, and disgraced, to say nothing of ruined - personally, politically, and professionally. Looking for sex can lead to misfortune, and if you get lucky and find it, it can leave you maimed, infected, or dead. Other than that, it's swell: the great American pastime. ... You probably won't see it on a bumper sticker, but sex kills.

  

  Edna Buchanan
  • Sex
  • Killed
  • Misfortune

• It sounds kind of strange, but Jail time was almost a good experience for me.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Experience
  • Strange
  • Jail

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