No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.
Miguel de Cervantes

Nobody would take checks from Indians, nobody would give them any credit, and nobody would let them drink in the bars. There was a rudeness, a brusqueness, with which the Indians were treated constantly. At a very young age, that had entered my consciousness.
James Welch

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
Whitfield Diffie

Pornography is rather like trying to find out about a Beethoven symphony by having somebody tell you about it and perhaps hum a few bars.
Robertson Davies

Right now, American law bars the admission of aliens suspected of terrorist activity - but not of terrorist sympathies.
Richard Perle

Salad bars are like a restaurant's lungs. They soak up the impurities and bacteria in the environment, leaving you with much cleaner air to enjoy.
Doug Coupland

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.
Lisa Snowdon

So I came home and I had a resume and everything, but the only job experience I had was just playing in bars and clubs on my summers off. So, I was temping and stuff during the day and playing music at night.
Mary Chapin Carpenter

Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.
Richard Lovelace

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.
Andy Partridge

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
Joe Eszterhas

The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!
Robbie Williams

The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.
Huey Newton

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.
Axel Munthe

There were bars that began to have acoustic musicians play, it was 1970: Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, America, The Eagles, all that kind of stuff was popular. It was very easy for me to just kind of move in and be noticed.
Shawn Colvin

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum

Two men look out the same prison bars; one sees mud and the other stars.
Beck

Unfortunately or fortunately, in order to become acquainted with the idiom of country or rock music, it is necessary to occasionally play in a bar. Bars are a rehearsal place.
Garth Hudson

Wash four distinct and separate times, using lots of lather each time from individual bars of soap.
Howard Hughes

We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.
Barry McCaffrey