Quotes About Consequences

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face

Think what you do when you run into debt; you give another power over your liberty.

He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas.

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of low price is forgotten.

He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. - Ben Franklin

Fools multiply folly.

Ignorance leads men into a party, and shame keeps them from getting out again.

He that lies down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Our debts and our sins are always greater than we think for.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

He that drinks fast, pays slow.

Anoint a villain and he'll stab you, stab him & he'll anoint you.

A small leak will sink a great ship,

Think what you do when you run in debt: you give another power over your liberty.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful,

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful, the nature of man alone considered; that it was, therefore, every one's interest to be virtuous who wished to be happy even in this world;

Lie down with dogs and you get up with fleas. One of the main characters in 'Nothing is Lost' says that. She probably didn't know that the source was Benjamin Franklin.

I can't imagine any fairminded future person feeling there was an important moral difference between the Soviet gulag and the American one.

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.

Tweeting is like doing drugs. Seems like fun, but you just end up regretting it afterward.

That was not part of the U.N. resolution; it was not part of the mandate to go on to Baghdad and, frankly, if we had gone into Baghdad and pushed Saddam Hussein off, we would have inherited an even bigger mess than the mess we inherited with the refugee problem.

I refuse to answer on the ground that this might be incriminating.