Quotes About Consequences

several children had laughed in the presence of a white man, who then ordered that all the servant boys in town be given fifty lashes. The second installment of twenty-five lashes was due at six o'clock the next morning. Lefranc managed to get these stopped, but was told not to make any more protests that interfered with discipline.

On top of everything else, Boobie's got the clap.

Though those different plans were, perhaps, first introduced by the private interests and prejudices of particular orders of men, without any regard to, or foresight of, their consequences upon the general welfare of the society;

Are we going to do this?" "We have to." "We don't have to. We could go to the police." "They'll kill her if we go to the police. The woman who has her is a monster. I heard it in her voice. We're the worst parents in America. You know those people who overdose in the front seats of their cars? We're dumber than that.

Revenge is the foolish stepbrother of justice.

You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.

Look - can't you see? The more you kick against the pricks, the more you suffer.

Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of suffering

But you cannot speak of any glory for happenings that are at once evil and held in dishonor.

If libations were proper to pour above the slain, this man deserved, more than deserved, such sacrament. He filled our cup with evil things unspeakable and now himself come home has drunk it to the dregs.

It is tempting For the winner, who might have lost his life, To take all. And to destroy whatever cannot be taken. Let us pray they restrain themselves.

Vices are their own punishment

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

The Flies And The Honey-Pot A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper's room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily. Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated. Just as they were expiring, they exclaimed, O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves. Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.

convinced that in trying to please all, he had pleased none, and had lost his ass into the bargain.

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing.

Do not waste your pity on a scamp.

In serving the wicked, expect no reward, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

Those who try to entrap others are often caught by their own schemes.

If men had all they wished, they would be often ruined.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

Evil wishes, like fowls, come home to roost.