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Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails. — Ray Davies

Well ... you know, I would wake up with a terrible hangover in a jail somewhere and worst part was that I would not know why I was there. — Colin Quinn

People don't understand that you can actually lose your life going to jail. There's more violence in the jail-house than there is on the streets. — Snoop Dogg

Apparently, I'm very, very popular in jails. They often ask me to come and speak. — Etgar Keret

We are imprisoning or giving jail sentences to young people who are smoking marijuana. — Bernie Sanders

Michael always said if he could get them to eighteen without going to jail or getting a girl pregnant he'd consider it a success. — Brigid Kemmerer

If you want to throw me in jail for trying to save someone's life, then go ahead. Next time I promise I'll point at them and laugh. — James Dashner

Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me! — Maxim Gorky

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience. — John Bunyan

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'. — Groucho Marx

Summon me, then; I will be the posse comitatus; I will take them to jail. — Samuel Chase

When someone is afraid, his life is worse than the life of someone who is in jail — Sunday Adelaja

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. — Adlai E. Stevenson

If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs. — Kurt Cobain

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles. — Sebastian Bach

It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia. — Bernie Sanders

All of North Korea is a jail. — Kim Young-sam

You know, don't tell anybody I'm a jail bird, you know, but there were a bunch of us that were years ago involved in the pro-life movement. — Todd Akin

To live with unforgiveness is to become a captive cultured citizen whose taxation is that of demonically ticketed torment. — Tracey Bond

[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail. — Fran Lebowitz

Prison is a still point in a turning world, and it is very easy to remain in the same place in jail while the world moves on. — Nelson Mandela

I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile. — Adam Sandler

The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims. — Deyth Banger

Look round, the wrecks of play behold; Estates dismember'd, mortgaged, sold! Their owners now to jails confin'd, Show equal poverty of mind. — John Gay

Wall Street can never be allowed to threaten main street again. No bank can be too big to fail, no executive too powerful to jail. — Hillary Clinton

Without the bargain he'd made he'd still be rotting in that North African jail with all the other vermin. — Toni Anderson

Escape her own father as well. Seizing the moment, she springs Rosaleen from jail, and the two set out across South — Sue Monk Kidd

Isn't breaking a supervillian out of jail a little ... much? — Kirstin Van Dyke

Inside was a tableau of frustration that might've been straight out of Norman Rockwell, if Norman Rockwell had painted people doing hard time in jail. — Ransom Riggs

Journalists don't need a get-out-of-jail-free card, ... Instead we should be given more access to information. — Chris Powell

Do not help your jailers to pretend that their jail is your natural state of existence. — Ayn Rand

Caring about what others think is the biggest jail one can put oneself in. — Durjoy Datta

Someone who believes everything he is told simply can't be a scientist, but someone who believes nothing will wind up in jail or prematurely buried. — Luis Alvarez

We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping. — Douglas Coupland

Every time the Russians throw an American in jail, the Committee throws an American in jail to get even. — Mort Sahl

We will not allow this day of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial to go without somebody going to jail. — Cornel West

The letters from jail are always disconcerting. — Eliza Dushku

ten years of whorehouse joy I'm alone now in the mountains the pines are like a jail the wind scratches my skin Ikky — Stephen Berg

I didn't want to go to jail. Unlike Takata, I looked awful in orange. — Kim Harrison

Virtue is uncommon in all the classes of humanity; and I suppose it will scarcely be imagined more frequent in a prison than in other places. Yet ... — Samuel Johnson

I know people who've gone to jail. It don't mean you stop loving them! They deservin' love just as much in there, and maybe they needin' it more. — Alicia Keys

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States. — Pablo Escobar

You like it in jail?'
'It's not too bad. You don't meet the best people, but who the hell wants to? — Raymond Chandler

I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. — Charles Bukowski

I was in chemical jail. — James Taylor

I could have killed her when we first met and I've been out of jail by now. — Waylon Jennings

Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory. — Anton Chekhov

Cop comes down the street crazy as a loon, he throws us in jail for carrying harpoons. — Bob Dylan

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

When they put me in jail, that's when they turned me into an activist. Up until the time I went to jail, I was just a comedian. — Tommy Chong

It is crazy to have Judith Miller in jail. — Matthew Cooper

Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task. — Mahatma Gandhi

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something. — Kangana Ranaut

A lot of prophets have gone to jail. — Tommy Chong

The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library was open, unending, free. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

After all answering "mmm" or silence in the story "The story in the Jail", it's shown that isn't the best idea. — Deyth Banger

People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote. — Unita Blackwell

Being in love is better than being in jail, a dentist's chair, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia, but not if he doesn't love you back. — Judith Viorst

Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life. — Gary Sheffield

He thinks he can use the jail for networking to be somebody. In that way, he's always operating. — John Leguizamo

A lot of guys in jail tattoo their hands. — Daniel Day-Lewis

Your home is your jail, Bird. I'm going to set you free. — Teresa Mummert

Most people have kind of done something that could put them in jail at least for one night. — Lauren Lapkus

It is better to support schools than jails. — Mark Twain

It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins. — John Money

Steve Jobs, the pioneer of the computer as a jail made cool, designed to sever fools from their freedom, has died. — Richard Stallman

Just because he's not in jail doesn't mean he's not guilty; it just means he never got caught. — M. Leighton

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

If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail. — Ed Koch

When people get out of jail, it is not easy for them to find a job. It is not easy for them to return to civil society. — Bernie Sanders

Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood. — Rob Reiner

How many of us readers say this quote and mean it. "If I knew what I know now life would be different" ... — Robert Reed

I went to jail for 11 days for disturbing the peace; I was trying to disturb the war. — Joan Baez

A world without open country would be universal jail. — Edward Abbey

Had Mother Nature been a real parent, she would have been in jail for child abuse and murder. — Nick Bostrom

If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail. — Cole Porter

Being a teacher is like being in jail; once it's on your record, you can never get rid of it. — Henry David Thoreau

If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail! — Kurt Cobain

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

To stand up for truth is nothing. For truth, you must sit in jail. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I built a jail in my closet and I would incarcerate my family from time to time. — Will Ferrell

Every new invention is like a baby. You think it may cure cancer or become the president, but in the end, you're happy it just stays out of jail. — Eric Betzig

Our so-called leaders speak
With words they try to jail you
The subjugate the meek
But it's the rhetoric of failure — Sting

I mean really if you can't count on your best friend to go to jail with you, what good are they? — Janice Hardy

-You were in jail? What was it like?
-Boring.Dirty.Smelled like ass. — Hannah Harrington

I shot a couple of movies in jail, but I was never in jail. — Tom Sizemore

Only poor people go to jail. — Charles Barkley

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak. — Wavy Gravy

Whattaya mean you ain't no criminal lawyer? You a lawyer right? And you in here, that means you also a criminal. — Kenneth Eade

The kids growing up in the apartheid era were so restricted and angry - if they spoke out against it, they were thrown in jail. — Malik Bendjelloul

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

I thought that was the crown jewel of the reporter's resume - to actually go to jail protecting a source. — Trey Gowdy

Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me. — Tommy Chong

I am not in jail. There is no jail. — Charles Manson

I hear they whip you for stealing."
"Or put you in jail, or sell you into slavery, or kill you, depending on the town and what mood they're in. — Orson Scott Card

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail. — Eric Clapton

And I had just kissed my ex-girlfriend, who had cried, while my current girlfriend was in jail. So far, it had not been my best day. — Mark Zero

Some of the best projects to ever come out of Atari or Chuck E. Cheese's were from high school dropouts, college dropouts. One guy had been in jail. — Nolan Bushnell

The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say. — Criss Jami

If you don't go to highschool you will definately go to jail. — Gerard Way