Quotes About Consequences

Laws are the spider's webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.

The law of England is a very strange one; it cannot compel anyone to tell the truth. . . . But what the law can do is to give you seven years for not telling the truth.

Law is a bottomless pit.

If you lend you either lose the money or gain an enemy.

A good memory is needed once we have lied.

All sins cast long shadows.

Every time history repeats itself, the price goes up.

I'm so happy to be rich, I'm willing to take all the consequences.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin with a grin.

No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

The eye that mocketh at his father, and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Almost anything carried to its logical extreme becomes depressing, if not carcinogenic.

He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like.

It is a fact of history that those who seek to withdraw from its great experiments usually end up being overwhelmed by them.

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear-end collision and Man will never know that what hit him from behind was Man.

People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by a man shall his blood be shed.

The object of punishment is, prevention from evil; it never can be made impulsive to good.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.

They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

The way of transgressors is hard.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.