Quotes About Consequences

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.

There is no surer road to perdition than the ledger glands dictate your direction.

Opportunity may only knock once, but temptation'll knock down the damn door and drag you out by the hair.

Life is what you make it. Unless some guy finds you with his girl. Then the ball's pretty much in his court.

A hard lesson had been learned--that man himself suffers most when his hand despoils the earth and robs it of its legitimate fruits.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

The gods' most savage curses come upon us as answers to our own prayers. Prayer is a dangerous business.

If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone.

My mom started smoking when she was 11. She went to the hill next door to try her first cigarette. She set the entire hill on fire, but it didn't deter her.

Red Riding Hood ran from her wolf," he told her with an edge of amusement. "Red Riding Hood didn´t know what the hell she was missing

Adam & Eve. The serpent cracked the mirror in a thousand pieces, & the apple was his rock.

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

To what gulfs A single deviation from the track Of human duties leads even those who claim The homage of mankind as their born due, And find it, till they forfeit it themselves!

It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime.

Or, like the thief of fire from heaven, Wilt thou withstand the shock? And share with him, the unforgiven, His vulture and his rock!

They vow to amend their lives, and yet they don't; Because if drown'd, they can't—if spared, they won't.

If she loved rashly, her life paid for wrong— A heavy price must all pay who thus err,      In some shape; let none think to fly the danger, For soon or late Love is his own avenger.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted; they have torn me, and I bleed. I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

Remember thee! remember thee! Till Lethe quench life's burning stream Remorse and shame shall cling to thee, And haunt thee like a feverish dream! Remember thee! Aye, doubt it not. Thy husband too shall think of thee: By neither shalt thou be forgot, Thou false to him, thou fiend to me!

Choices made in fear to fix the moment can poison the future.

Just because you have not been caught for doing it yet, does not make what you are doing legal.