Quotes About Consequences

The school-room sends men to the Legislature, to the bench, and the executive office. The bar-room sends them to the scaffold and hell.

Those men who destroy a healthful constitution of body by intemperance as manifestly kill themselves as those who hang or poison or drown themselves.

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.

We do not seek to hurt any man, but if any man seeks to hurt us may he break his neck.

There are but very few men clever enough to know all the mischief they do.

The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

A man's venom poisons himself more than his victims.

Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead," said Scrooge. "But if the courses be departed from, the ends will change.

Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.

If a man gets drunk and goes out and breaks his leg so that it must be amputated, God will forgive him if he asks it, but he will have to hop around on one leg all his life.

At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!

Vengeance comes not slowly either upon you or any other wicked man, but steals silently and imperceptibly, placing its foot on the bad.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.

A man with a machine may murder or enslave millions, whereas it used to take at least thousands to murder millions. And the man behind the machine has nothing on his conscience.

In sinning, each man sins against all, and each man is at least partly guilt for another's sin. There is no isolated sin.

If a man offend a harmless, pure, and innocent person, the evil falls back upon that fool, like light dust thrown up against the wind.

When a man has been intemperate so long that shame no longer paints a blush upon his cheek, his liquor generally does it instead.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.

Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.

Where do murderers go, man! Who's to doom, when the judge himself is dragged to the bar?