Quotes About Consequences

Thieves at home must hang; but he that puts Into his overgorged and bloated purse The wealth of Indian provinces, escapes.

If we keep on ignoring and leaving children to their own devices at home, they become latchkey kids, and trust me, the consequences of that are not good.

Curses are like young chickens, theyalways come home to roost.

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good.

And when the chickens that didn't hatch come home to roost, we will rue the day when, misled by sloppy accounting and rosy scenarios, we gave away the national nest egg.

Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.

Once you place that crown of liar on your head, you can take it off again, but it leaves a stain for all time.

A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.

There is no glory in honesty if it is destructive. And no shame in dishonesty if its goal is to offer grace.

If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

Honesty doesn't always pay, but dishonesty always costs.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, repute possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

He who prorogues the honesty of today till to-morrow will probably prorogue his to-morrows to eternity.

Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

The smart employer looks not for perfection but for an explanation of how the consequences of a dishonorable act affected the candidate and others.

Keeping secrets from your father will only lead to trouble.

All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Honor's a fine imaginary notion, that draws in raw and unexperienced men to real mischiefs.

If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Let him that sows the serpent's teeth not hope to reap a joyous harvest. Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, its own avenging angel,--dark misgivings at the inmost heart.

People have managed to avert their eyes and hope for the best.

The greatest incitement to guilt is the hope of sinning with impunity.