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Jail Quotes by Samuel Johnson
- Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life…
- ...a common observation, that few are mended by imprisonment, and that he, whose crimes have made confinement necessary, seldom makes any other use of his…
- 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…
- No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a…
- Being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned.
More Jail Quotes
- In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is… — Billie Holiday
- We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because… — Barack Obama
- To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to… — Albert Camus
- You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were… — Tupac Shakur
- One of the things that made me suffer no regret when I was called away from the cramped intellectual jail of atheism… — John C. Wright
- I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you… — Paul McCartney
- What does labor want? We want more schoolhouses and less jails; more books and less arsenals; more learning and less vice; more… — Samuel Gompers
- A few years ago I lost one of my dearest friends. He died at age 53 - heart attack. David is gone,… — Jim Rohn