Quotes About Consequences

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of pride and fraud and blood.

The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.

No man commits evil for the sake of it; even the Devil himself has some farther design in sinning, than barely the wicked part of it.

There is scarcely any man sufficiently clever to appreciate all the evil he does.

Few men know all the ill they do.

It is safer to do most men harm than to do them too much good.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

Unfinished business always comes back to haunt you, and a man who swears he'll love you forever isn't finished with you until he's done.

IMMORAL, adj. Inexpedient. Whatever in the long run and with regard to the greater number of instances men find to be generally inexpedient comes to be considered wrong, wicked, immoral.

Men do not get up and do mischief, without there is someone in the head of it.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

Man provides his own goods and his own evils, neither God nor the Devil has anything to do with it.

Memory is earth's retribution for man's sins.

It just takes a pebble to bring down a good man.

The man that is once hated, both his good and his evil deeds oppress him.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone.

No man ever flees from duty without incalculable hurt, not only to himself, but to others as well.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

All I knew was that I would die if he sent me away. He shrugged. You can cut a man's heart out with a shrug, did you know that?

The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.

A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.