#prison

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#conscience #evil #parents #penance #prison

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

— Henry Miller

#crime #his #lives #over #prisoner

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out. ↗

— Ho Chi Minh

#dragon #fly #opened #out #prison

We are no more free agents than the queen of clubs when she victoriously takes prisoner the knave of hearts. ↗

— Mary Wortley Montagu

#clubs #free #free agents #hearts #knave

I remember when humor was gentle pokes. I used to call it 'arm around the shoulder' humor. Now they go for the jugular and they take no prisoners. It's mean, mean stuff. ↗

— Robert Orben

#around #call #gentle #go #humor

I did a book signing when we were in New York the day before yesterday. A lady came through and she was just weeping, and said, 'I wish this would have been brought out sooner, my sister is in prison for suffocating her child.' ↗

— Marie Osmond

#before #book #brought #came #child

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm. ↗

— James Otis

#any #commission #control #every #imprison

You stuff somebody into the American dream, and it becomes a prison. ↗

— Craig L. Thomas

#american dream #becomes #dream #into #prison

My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths. ↗

— Katie Price

#get #go #i #interview #into

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them. ↗

— Vladimir Putin

#destroy #fight #prisons #shall #them