44 Quotations with Jail.
- 1. H. L. Mencken: The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not fo ...

- 2. W. Somerset Maugham: Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

- 3. Nathaniel Hawthorne: What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as o ...

- 4. Horace Mann: Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the ...

- 5. Ambrose Bierce: HABEAS CORPUS. A writ by which a man may be taken out of jail when confined for ...

- 6. Ambrose Bierce: OPIATE, n. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail ya ...

- 7. Ambrose Bierce: RESPITE, n. A suspension of hostilities against a sentenced assassin, to enable ...

- 8. Ambrose Bierce: UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a hous ...

- 9. Samuel Johnson: Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.

- 10. John F. Kennedy: Conformity is the jailer of freedom, and the enemy of growth.

- 11. Alfred Whitney Griswold: Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long ru ...

- 12. Theodore Kaczynski: My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate

- 13. Donald Harvey Tippet: If Easter means anything to modern man it means that eternal truth is eternal. Y ...

- 14. Heywood Hale Brown: Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without g ...

- 15. John Donne: Be your own palace, or the world is your jail.

- 16. Eugene Delacroix: I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it i ...

- 17. Raymond Chandler: In jail a man has no personality. He is a minor disposal problem and a few entri ...

- 18. Billie Holiday: In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solit ...

- 19. James Russell Lowell: Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us ...

- 20. Samuel Johnson: No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; f ...

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