Quotes About Consequences

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

The dog, to gain some private ends, Went mad, and bit the man.

When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.

A man that will take back a move at Chess will pick a pocket

No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than any [constitutional] provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

Many a man's tongue broke his nose.

As soon as men know that they can kill without fear of punishment or blame, they kill; or at least they encourage killers with approving smiles.

If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

There is no one so radical as a man-servant whose freedom of the champagne bin has been interfered with.

Hurry no man's cattle; you may come to own a donkey yourself

History is but a kind of Newgate calendar, a register of the crimes and miseries that man has inflicted on his fellow-man.

Never slap a man who chews tobacco.

The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its 'debt' in the penitentiary or the poor house.

To the worldy man Karma is a stern Nemesis, to the spiritual man Karma unfolds itself in harmony with his highest aspirations.

Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

The man who does ill, ill must suffer too.

A little man makes a mistake and they hang him by the thumbs; the big ones become ambassadors.

men don't make different mistakes at different periods of their lives. They make the same mistake over and over again and they pay a bigger and bigger price for it.

Many a man can save himself if he admits he's done wrong and takes his punishment.

It is not the business of government to make men virtuous or religious, or to preserve the fool from the consequences of his own folly.

The man who procrastinates is always struggling with misfortunes.