Quotes about Consequences

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Whoever neglects old friends for the sake of new deserves what e gets if he loses both

Vices are their own punishment.

Vices are their own punishment.

Vices are their own punishment.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.