Funny Quote by Ambrose Bierce

He who is accustomed to give account of his life at confession here will not fear to give an answer at the terrible judgment-seat…

— John of Kronstadt

After one has been in prison, it is the small things that one appreciates: being able to take a walk whenever one wants, going…

— Nelson Mandela

MARTYR, One who moves along the line of least reluctance to a desired death.

— Ambrose Bierce

“Murderers — serving life sentences — were caring for their dying fellow inmates. Washing their bed-sore covered bodies, changing their diapers, holding their hands…

— Lisa R. Cohen

A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner.

— Anonymous

CLOSE-FISTED, adj. Unduly desirous of keeping that which many meritorious persons wish to obtain.

— Ambrose Bierce

Prison continues, on those who are entrusted to it, a work begun elsewhere, which the whole of society pursues on each individual through innumerable…

— Michel Foucault

Listen carefully to the global warming alarmists, and the main theme that emerges is that what the developed world needs is a large dose…

— Bret Stephens

To hold a pen is to be at war.

— Voltaire

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and…

— Henry Miller

To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to…

— Catharine MacKinnon

For instance, the notion of non-penal substitution. This idea, found in the work of the nineteenth century Scottish Reformed theologian John McLeod Campbell and…

— Oliver D. Crisp