Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roald Dahl

It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task.

Philip Roth

It's amazing how much punishment we can take.

Peter De Vries

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

John Stuart Mill

Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.

Nancy Reagan

I favor capital punishment. It saves lives.

Jorge Luis Borges

Islam asserts that on the unappealable Day of Judgment every perpetrator of the image of a living creature will be raised from the dead with his works, and he will be commanded to bring them to life, and he will fail, and be cast out with them into the fires of punishment.

Khaled Hosseini

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

Lois Lowry

For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure.

Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Edward Bond

The English sent all their bores abroad, and acquired the Empire as a punishment.

John le Carre

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

Ely Culbertson

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Emanuel Swedenborg

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Elliott Abrams

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

John Conyers

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

John Bunyan

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

John Bunyan

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

Lord Hailsham

Mercy is not what every criminal is entitled to. What he is entitled to is justice.

Malachy McCourt

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

Mahatma Gandhi

Non -violence is infinitely superior to violence , forgiveness is more manly than punishment. Forgiveness is the ornament.

Emile M. Cioran

Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

Emily Dickinson

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

Kate Mulgrew

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Lars von Trier

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

Lionel Jospin

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

Mary Doria Russell

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

Tom Tancredo

The word nobody wants to use, but you see if you are here illegally, that's the punishment, deportation.