Quotes About Consequences

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

Two wrongs can never make a right.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds came home to roost.

Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.

Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

Choice of attention-to pay attention to this and ignore that-is to the inner life what choice of action is to the outer. In both cases, a man is responsible for his choice and must accept the consequences.

The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.

No-one gives joy or sorrow. ... We gather the consequences of our own deeds.

What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!

Stay out of jail.

It is not alone what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable.

The way of transgressors is hard.s

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

After pleasant scratching comes unpleasant smarting.

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.

The first draught serveth for health, the second for pleasure, the third for shame, and the fourth for madness.

The fathers have eaten a sour grape, and the children's teeth are set on edge.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Speaking without thinking is shooting without taking aim.

A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

You can't act like a skunk without someone's getting wind of it.