Quotes About Consequences

The god of war is impartial: he hands out death to the man who hands out death.

Men are so unwilling to displease a Prince, that it is as dangerous to inform him right, as to serve him wrong.

Instability of temper ought to be checked when it disposes men to wander from one scheme to another: since such a fickleness cannot but be attended with fatal consequences.

When man decides he can control nature, he's in deep trouble

A man who does not lick his lips, can he blame the harmattan for drying them?

Six men can carry you or 12 men can judge you. You decide!

I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed...

The man who commits immorality does so because he thinks it will maximize pleasure if he can minimize the pain by keeping it secret.

Bad men do what good men only dream.

Stealing is a lazy man's way. Something for nothing, leaves you hell to pay.

Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.

We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.

The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of a bad man.

If Jupiter should hurl a bolt whenever men sin, His armory would quickly be empty.

The man that will nocht quhen he may Sall haif nocht quhen he wald.

What a terrible thing to be a great lord, yet a wicked man.

As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.

Why is it we are always the targets of the angry Fates? Twice as many men of ours met harm as did theirs, since we've come here.

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

Gambling makes boys selfish and cruel as well as men.

The man who seeks revenge is like the man who shoots himself in order to hit his enemy with the kick of the gun's recoil.

Sin has gotten men into more trouble than science can get him out of.

Trees on a riverbank, a woman in another man's house, and kings without counselors go without doubt to swift destruction.