Jail Quotes
637 Jail quotes by 498 unique authors
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There's no happy ending to cocaine. You either die, you go to jail, or else you run out.
— Sam Kinison
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Send me to jail in 48 hours if I am corrupt.
— Arvind Kejriwal
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
— Charles Bukowski
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I don't play with a lot of finesse. I usually play like I'm breaking out of jail!
— Stevie Ray Vaughan
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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
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Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me.
— Tommy Chong
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To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
— Danny Sugerman
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Oooh, if you have never been to Alaska, go there while it is still wild. My favorite uncle asked me if I wanted to go…
— Bob Ross
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I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.
— Pablo Escobar
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A petty thief is put in jail. A great brigand becomes a ruler of a Nation.
— Zhuangzi
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Let us be on the side of those who sit in jails and are sentenced to death for their faith. Let us pray for them…
— Richard Wurmbrand
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I don't want want to go to jail, I'm fragile.
— Adam Sandler
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If I went to jail, at least I wouldn't have to sign autographs.
— Kurt Cobain
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Almost makes you want to go to jail out here, doesn't it?
— William J. Clinton
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Under this law (Controlled Substances Act) a bureaucrat-usually not elected-decides whether or not a substance is dangerous and how dangerous that substance is. There's no…
— Peter McWilliams
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The reign of tears is over. The slums will soon be only a memory. We will turn our prisons into factories and our jails into…
— Billy Sunday
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I was in jail four and a half years. When I came out, I continued the same struggle against injustice, but instead of using weapons,…
— Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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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
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I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless…
— Jack Kerouac
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And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I…
— Lady Gaga
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So I had a choice between going to a jail or going to a bughouse like a nice young middle-class student. So I chose to…
— Allen Ginsberg
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Steal a little, and they put you in jail. Steal a lot, and they make you king.
— Bob Dylan
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Show me the prison, Show me the jail, Show me the prisoner whose life has gone stale. And I'll show you a young man with…
— Phil Ochs
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I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the…
— Lysander Spooner
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When a filmmaker does not make films, it is as if he is jailed. Even when he is freed from the small jail, he finds…
— Jafar Panahi
Who Wrote These Jail Quotes
498 authors contributed a total of 637 Jail Quotes, led by these top contributors: