Top 100 In Jail Quotes
#1. If I wasn't a champion, I'd still be in jail. That makes me try very hard.
Amnat Ruenroeng
#2. The issue isn't gun control but state control
obtuse and arbitrary state control, state control run amok ... Forget guns. If Dr. Hudson, Mr. Turnbull, Dr. Gingrich and others end up in jail it won't be for their guns but our liberties.
George Jonas
#3. This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.
Theodore Roosevelt
#4. Allison's eyes dart between me and the knives. Yeah, lady, a couple of hours in jail and I've moved from destruction of property to sociopath.
Katie McGarry
#5. Nelson Mandela was in jail when I was really young, and Winnie Mandela was one of the biggest faces of the movement. In South Africa we have a common phrase - it's like a chant in the street and at rallies: "Wathint' abafazi, wathint' imbokodo." Which means, "You strike a woman, you strike a rock."
Trevor Noah
#6. Are you telling me that now the government is going after attorneys? They're going to put every attorney for everyone they think is a bad guy in jail?
Kenneth Eade
#7. Have you ever been in jail, mate? Whatever you did in your life, nothing can be compared to a single day in jail.
Stefania Mattana
#8. If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
Harriet Ann Jacobs
#9. Bailee had watched them come in and out of the sheriff's office the week she'd been in jail. She, Sarah, and Lacy had sworn daily that if any one of the three won the lottery to become a husband, the other two women would help their friend become a widow as fast as possible.
Jodi Thomas
#10. He was very rich; he bought eggs to throw at a Chinaman. And one of those eggs missed the Chinaman and hit a policeman. So, Danny was in jail.
John Steinbeck
#11. Marijuana is rejected all over the world. Damned. In England heroin is alright for out-patents, but marijuana? They'll put your ass in jail. I wonder why that is? The only reason could be: To Serve the Devil - Pleasure! Pleasure, which is a dirty word in Christian culture.
Lenny Bruce
#12. Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.
Ray Davies
#13. Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
Benjamin Barber
#14. You reached your level, you don't want any more. We asked ten years ago, we were askin' with the Panthers, we were askin' in the Civil Rights Movement. Now those who were askin' are all dead or in jail, wo what are we gonna do? And we shouldn't be angry!?
Tupac Shakur
#15. I say haven't we had enough of just tossing our children in jail? Make them do community service, I say!
Jacquel Chrissy May
#16. When [Ralph Waldo] Emerson visited Thoreau in jail and asked, 'What are you doing in there?' it was reported that Thoreau replied, 'What are you doing out there?'
Howard Zinn
#17. On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches. (James Frey, pg.1)
James Frey
#18. My years in jail were a bit like a workshop for my - that actually forged my way of thinking and my values.
Jose Mujica
#19. Writers in repressive societies are considered dangerous. That's why so many of them are in jail.
Don DeLillo
#20. But if you go over the line, you don't want to get stuck in a Nevada State court room. Honestly, because Nevada has been doing a good job of putting California criminals in jail. I mean, we couldn't put OJ in jail, but they did. We couldn't put Paris Hilton in jail, but they did.
James Belushi
#22. My little cousin Jimmy told me in jail he was a drag queen.
Master P
#23. Lots of people think I went to prison. I never went to prison. I was in jail without bail.
Bobby Seale
#24. I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except of course, I was the bad guy.
Whatever.
Shay Savage
#25. it was a chicken-and-egg conundrum: were they animals because they were in jail . . . or were they in jail because they were animals?
Jodi Picoult
#26. Nick!' I flinch. 'What?' Jo widens her eyes at Mom. 'Forget it, Jo,' Mom says. 'He's not ready.'
'Yes, I am,' I tell her. 'I know I don't have a dad. Kenny DiPoto doesn't have a dad either because his dad got knifed in jail.'
'Geezus,' Jo breathes. 'What kind of neighbourhood is this?
Julie Anne Peters
#27. People are often in jail because they are honesty-impaired.
William Wright
#28. But when we have families, when we have children, this gives us a purpose for being, to protect our children, to avoid going to jail because if I'm in jail, who looks after my children, who's there for my wife?
Ernie Hudson
#29. If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
Patrick Henry
#30. I'd rather deal with Tipper than Bush. He's trying to kill everybody in jail.
Dr. Dre
#31. While I was in jail, they handcuffed me and took me to a backroom, where a detective from the FBI and a Secret Service agent were, and they interrogated me for about three or four hours.
Sherman Austin
#32. 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
#33. How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?
Brian Urlacher
#34. If, after obtaining Buddhahood, anyone in my land
gets tossed in jail on a vagrancy rap, may I
not attain highest perfect enlightenment.
Gary Snyder
#35. I've wrestled with alligators,
I've tussled with a whale.
I done handcuffed lightning
And throw thunder in jail.
You know I'm bad.
just last week, I murdered a rock,
Injured a stone, Hospitalized a brick.
I'm so mean, I make medicine sick.
Muhammad Ali
#36. [Justice George Sutherland said, in the majority opinion for the Carter Coal case] 'One who does a thing in order to avoid a monetary penalty does not agree; he yields to compulsion precisely the same as though he did so to avoid a term in jail.
Jim Powell
#37. As soon as Tara looked at the skull-and-barbed-wire
tattoo showing beneath the sleeve of Flynn O'Mara's tight t-shirt, she flashed on a jail cell. Bummer. His Dad's in jail
Sharon Sala
#38. Gandhi was important for another reason as well: his country was suffering under the British Empire, and yet he was leading a very singular kind of resistance to it. At the time he was speaking about the violence in Europe, his followers were in jail as prisoners of the British government.
Nicholson Baker
#39. Old Mr. Bob Ewell accused him of rapin' his girl an' had him arrested an' put in jail - " "Mr.
Harper Lee
#40. I'd like to do things to make money to save myself but right now I can't do nothing. If they want to put me in jail, they can do that. It's kind of tough.
Manute Bol
#41. A good friend will bail you out when you land in jail, but a very good friend will be sitting beside you in that jail cell.
Maya Banks
#42. I expect to see, on television, the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan decrying to the whole world that my client should be in jail for rendering kindness and compassion, primarily because the porcine Governor of the State of Michigan is a religious nut.
Geoffrey Fieger
#43. If you put something together and it doesn't look so good,
the fashion police are not going to come and take you away.
And if they do, you might have some fun in jail.
Iris Apfel
#44. Paris Hilton got 45 days in jail. A lot of people were upset about this - they were hoping for the death penalty.
Jay Leno
#45. One should not be obstinate even in worldly interaction. If you are obstinate with a 'collector', what will he do? He will throw you in jail. So then what will happen if you are obstinate with God? God won't put you in jail, but his happiness upon you will break (will go away).
Dada Bhagwan
#46. Being that I went to jail and came back, I went through a whole new experience in life. I went from being at the top to back down at the bottom again. In jail, you get stripped of your freedom and everything, so I experienced different things, learned more.
Meek Mill
#47. Why you like this, huh? Why you always think you have to do things your own way? I ast your mama bout it one time, while you was in jail.
What she say? ast Sofia.
She say you think your way as good as anybody else's. Plus, it yours.
Sofia laugh.
Alice Walker
#48. Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
Gary Sheffield
#49. A Canadian woman was sentenced to 90 days in jail on Thursday for causing two deaths in 2010 when she stopped her car on a Quebec highway to help a group of ducklings crossing the road.
Anonymous
#50. I've never had knickers or marriage proposals. Most of my fans are blokes serving life in jail, troubled kids, and a lot of gay guys. I never get the mid-20s, beautiful women fanbase.
Kelvin Fletcher
#51. Oh god, what now? Are you in jail? Being held by the IRA? Stuck on a reef in the Caribbean?"
"Wow," Kelly said. "That's uncalled for."
Zane laughed. "I thought being engaged to Ty gave me some extra snark privileges.
Abigail Roux
#52. I've got to formulate a plot or end up in jail or shot, success is my only option, failure's not.
Eminem
#53. If you owe ten pounds to the Bank of England, you get thrown in jail, but if you owe a million pounds, they invite you to sit on the Board
Philippe Ries
#54. Do not sleep under a roof. Carry no money or food. Go alone to places frightening to the common brand of men. Become a criminal of purpose. Be put in jail, and extricate yourself by your own wisdom.
Miyamoto Musashi
#55. I suppose you will continue to screw things up unless I level with you, Navarre. Or unless I get someone to throw you in jail."
"Most likely."
"Goddamn your father."
"Amen.
Rick Riordan
#56. If football wasn't a part of my life, there were three things that could have happened, and they were all bad. I would have likely been selling drugs, in jail or dead.
Chad Ochocinco
#57. Once in jail or you just go in prison for a reason you don't have rights... So be wise, think twice and don't go there!
Deyth Banger
#58. If you ever feel so happy you land in jail, I'm your bail.
Cole Porter
#59. As soon as I got out of jail, as soon as my trial was over, first of all, during the time I was in jail, there was an organization called the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis, and I insisted that it be called National United Committee to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners.
Angela Davis
#60. Kingsley, before you say anything that could land you or me in jail, you should know you're on speaker phone with your fan club," Nora said. "Did you know you had a fan club?"
"Non," he said. "But I'm not surprised.
Tiffany Reisz
#61. 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
#62. Too simple? An idea cannot be too simple. Simple is sometimes great, indeed. The Mahatma had a simple idea, although the British did not like it very much and put him in jail. Simple is good.
Ian B.G. Burns
#63. What every American should know is that we have more people in jail today than any other country on Earth, more than China. We have some 2.2 million people in jail. What that means is that a lot of lives are being destroyed.
Bernie Sanders
#64. Kiefer Sutherland has agreed to serve 48 days in jail for his DUI convictions. That's 245 months in Jack Bauer years.
Chelsea Handler
#65. The court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.
Barbara Deming
#66. You can't be with God and be neutral. / True contemplation is resistance. And poetry, / gazing at clouds is resistance I found out in jail.
Ernesto Cardenal
#67. I'm actually a lowlife. On the street at fifteen and also in jail for the first time at that age, and off and on the street until my mid-twenties.
Patricia McConnell
#68. I was appointed United States attorney on September 10, 2001. And I spent the next seven years of my career fighting terrorism and putting terrorists in jail.
Chris Christie
#69. That while a good friend would bail you out of jail, a best friend would be in jail alongside you.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#70. I tell the truth, and it has gotten me into a lot of trouble. My dad used to say to me, 'If you tell the truth all day long, you will end up in jail.'
Elaine Stritch
#71. Every tiny molecule of Ash is in motion with my heat I am such a Lunatic that I am free even in Jail.
Bhagat Singh
#72. People were threatened, folks was put in jail just because we wanted people to try to register to vote.
Unita Blackwell
#74. Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jail and prisons, however, they can each generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
Chris Hedges
#75. I'm not a fugitive anymore. Never will be in the future. After spending five years in jail, you learn your lesson. I never want to return there.
Kevin Mitnick
#76. But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to take.
John Clellon Holmes
#77. When someone is afraid, his life is worse than the life of someone who is in jail
Sunday Adelaja
#78. I think there are too many people in jail for too long and for not necessarily good reasons.
Eric Holder
#79. The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
H.L. Mencken
#80. I got really frustrated in jail, and I was like, 'Man, I love what I've done, and I love the mark I've made on rock n' roll history' ... and I sat there, and I got really depressed, thinking, 'I gotta make a move ... do something fresh and new.'
Tommy Lee
#81. A man in Georgia was arrested for burglary after he left his Facebook account open on the victim's computer. But this is nice: He's only been in jail a few hours, and his status already says In a Relationship!
Jimmy Fallon
#82. I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.
Paul McCartney
#83. In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.
Nelson Mandela
#84. They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings steal a little and they throw you in jail. Steal a lot and then they make you king.
Bob Dylan
#85. 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
#86. I haven't taken an overdose of sleeping pills and called my agent. I haven't been in jail, and I don't go running to the psychiatrist every two minutes. That's something of an accomplishment these days
Ava Gardner
#87. If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.
Ted Nugent
#88. Being in a ship is like being in jail, with the chance of being drowned.
Samuel Johnson
#89. I think that compared to other politicians who have been put in jail in the past, compared to the human-rights activists in history who have had to face political prosecution, the activists in Hong Kong nowadays are already quite lucky compared to that.
Joshua Wong
#90. I know not whether Laws be right,
Or whether Laws be wrong;
All that we know who be in jail
Is that the wall is strong;
And that each day is like a year,
A year whose days are long.
Oscar Wilde
#91. People don't understand that where I come from, everyone is either a convict, been in jail, been in a gang, is a hooligan of some sorts, but those are my brothers, my family and the people that I travel with. Those are the people that I roll with.
Lupe Fiasco
#92. It costs a hell of a lot more money to put somebody in jail than send them to the University of Virginia.
Bernie Sanders
#93. Two friends... let's put them place... they have never been in jail, give them a knife some reasonable conflicts some doubts and watch the effect.
Deyth Banger
#94. To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.
Danny Sugerman
#95. Okay, first thing tomorrow we hit the streets around Taccone's place. Somebody saw something.'
'I got it covered.'
'The DiMarcos might be in town.'
'Actually, they're in jail.'
'All seven of them?'
Hale shrugged. 'It was an interesting October.
Ally Carter
#96. If I was going to spend the next day in jail for obstruction of justice, I'd better get a good nights sleep.
Kathi Daley
#97. Jail is more commonly-suited to those less-commonly able to finance a defense (or to potentially pander the prosecution). The choices for council is either a retained lawyer or, by default, a public defender. In the later of these two, the common title in jail was 'public pretender'.
H. Kirk Rainer
#98. 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 love it here!
Lady Gaga
#99. When I was a kid, everybody in the neighborhood picked me to be the one in jail or be in the cemetery by the time I was 20.
Bo Jackson
#100. If I ever get arrested," I said, "you will be my one phone call. Bail me out - that's what you can do." "If you ever get arrested," Sofia said, "I'll already be in jail as your accomplice.
Lisa Kleypas
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