Quotes About Consequences

Men never do good unless necessity drives them to it; but when they are free to choose and can do just as they please, confusion and disorder become rampant.

Often even a whole city suffers for a bad man who sins and contrives presumptuous deeds.

According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

Men seldom act from a correct sense of what may be harmful or useful to them.

The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

Satan, that great angler, hath his sundry baits for sundry tempers of men, which they all catch greedily at, but few perceive the hook till it be too late.

Nobody does good to men with impunity.

All laws which can be broken without any injury to another, are counted but a laughing-stock, and are so far from bridling the desires and lusts of men, that on the contrary they stimulate them.

Neither gods nor men can foresee when an evil deed will bear its fruit.

Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.

The worst thing that can happen to a man who gambles is to win

If a physician presumes to take into consideration in his work whether life has value or not, the consequences are boundless and the physician becomes the most dangerous man in the state.

We may avoid the laws of man, but there are greater laws that can't be broken.

Custom may lead a man into many errors; but it justifies none.

From men motivated by moral certitude, history teaches, no lasting good ever comes.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

A man that will go along with six killings is making his escape a little slow.

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

One man's wickedness may easily become all men's curse.

A wise man who stands firm is a statesman, a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe.

Ladies ...any man that lusts after you will answer to God for his mental adultery...but you will answer to God if you provoked him by the manner in which you are dressed.

Charlie Sheen called his boss on 'Two and a Half Men' a 'Jew ki**' and expected to go back to work. That's crazy. If you could do that and keep your job, then everybody would do it.

For no one loves the bearer of bad tidings.

One of the greatest disservices you can do a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.