Funny Inmate Quotes & Sayings

Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences. — Dalai Lama XIV

The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas. — Norman Vincent Peale

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety. — Joe Moore

Making people laugh is what I've been doing since I was like four or five years old. I still have a lust, I still have a passion. I don't care about how I look, I'm dedicated to the laughs. — Bernie Mac

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us. — Leonardo Da Vinci

I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like. — Hermann Hesse

[T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer ... [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness. — Benjamin Franklin

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing. — Bill Nye

Time is precious and should be spent doing things that make you happy, not brushing those very moments aside. That's when you really die, and I plan on living. — Katelin LaMontagne

Love wasn't put in your heart to stay. Love isn't love until you give it away. — Michael W. Smith

soldiers on the banks of the canal, they looked carefully to see whether they were Japanese or Chinese so they'd know which pass to pull out. — Katherine Paterson

Because Jews were kicked out of every country in Europe at one time or another, and plenty of other places as well, there isn't an ability to identify with a national heritage - you'll never hear a Jew say 'I'm German' or 'I'm Polish,' without saying something about being Jewish as well, and for good reason. — Adam Mansbach

The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. — George Santayana

What I don't have in theater is editing. — Julie Taymor

Worse even than your maddening song, your silence. — Sylvia Plath