Prison Escapee's Not-Quite-Clean Escape

We cannot escape history. - Abraham Lincoln

Weekends are an employee's parole. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

To a warden Utopia is an escape-proof jail. - Mark Twain

The most anxious man in a prison is the warden. - George Bernard Shaw

If at first you don't escape, try try again. - Gulag Motto

Identification... is a form of escape from the self. - Krishnamurti

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it. - Unknown

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. - Thomas Mann

Of all the escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - H L Mencken

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. - Horace

In my country we go to prison first and then become president. - Nelson Mandela

When the prison doors are opened, the real dragon will fly out. - Ho Chi Minh

Jail is no place for a young fellow. There's no advancement. - Groucho Marx

Work is the easiest activity man has invented to escape boredom. - Unknown

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading today. - Abraham Lincoln

I knew a girl so ugly, they use her in prisons to cure sex offenders. - Rodney Dangerfield

I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school. - Adlai Stevenson

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. - Samuel Johnson

On the keyboard of life always keep one finger on the 'escape' key. - Unknown

Prison is the worst experience I've ever had in my life - besides death. - Duane Chapman

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. - Lewis B Smedes

Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it. - Lloyd Alexander

An Overall Feeling of Doom that One Cannot Ever Escape no Matter What One Does - Lemony Snicket

We feel free when we escape - even when it be from the frying pan into the fire. - Eric Hoffer

If you are patient in one moment of anger you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. - Chinese Proverb

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison. - Henri Amiel

People are prisoners of their phones; that's why it's called a 'cell' phone. - Unknown

The plague fell upon the whole world.. not a single man in the whole Roman Empire could escape. - Procopius

Why would anyone expect him to come out smarter? He went to prison for three years, not Princeton. - Dan Duva

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison. - WC Fields

Up until now, the prospect of parole has kept us from confronting our captors with any real determination. - George Jackson

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I'm on parole, that I'm not really free. - Jennifer Lane

My parents live in a retirement community, which is basically a minimum-security prison with a golf course. - Joel Warshaw

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from. - Seth Godin

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

The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to. - Dodie Smith

All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars. - Judy Sheindlin

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

How shall a man escape from his ancestors, or draw off from his veins the black drop which he drew from his father’s or mother's life? - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone. - Malcolm Muggeridge