“ Stone walls do not a prison make nor iron bars a cage; minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. ”
- Richard Lovelace- Copy
- 510
“ Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former. ”
- Horace Mann- Copy
- 335
“ Being in a ship is like being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo - obedient to our keepers, but dangerous to each other. ”
- Angela Davis- Copy
- 1.5K
“ While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. ”
- Eugene V. Debs- Copy
- 4K
“ The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ”
- Israel Zangwill- Copy
- 2.9K
“ I bought a seven dollar pen because I always lose pens and I got sick of not caring. ”
- Mitch Hedberg- Copy
- 1.8K
“ Opiate. An unlocked door in the prison of Identity. It leads into the jail yard. ”
- Ambrose Bierce- Copy
- 270
“ Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.7K
“ The pen is mightier than the sword, but no match for the accountant. ”
- Jonathan Glancey- Copy
- 1.9K
“ My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you. ”
- Charles Manson- Copy
- 133
“ Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion. ”
- Sir William Blake- Copy
- 236
“ One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.9K
“ A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
- 3.6K
“ Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ”
- Mary Wollstonecraft- Copy
- 3.8K
“ In durance vile here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom Nor forced him wander, but confine him home. ”
- John Cleveland- Copy
- 4K
“ We like that a sentence should read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end. ”
- Henry David Thoreau- Copy
- 1.6K
“ Brain cells create ideas. Stress kills brain cells. Stress is not a good idea. ”
- Richard Saunders- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants. ”
- Thomas Alva Edison- Copy
- 3.8K
“ A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 1.4K
“ I sit and say nothing for fearMy words will turn to stoneAnd though they are sincere,They will become a prison of their own. ”
- Garrison Keillor- Copy
- 2K
“ I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
- 3.3K
“ O, break, my heart! poor bankrout, break at once! To prison, eyes; ne'er look on liberty! Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here, And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little need of reform in our prisons. - John Ruskin. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
- 2.6K
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