Consequences Quotes

The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot.

Pay now, play later; play now, pay later.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

If you will be hard on yourself, life will be easy on you. But if you insist upon being easy on yourself, life is going to be very hard on you.

If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing.

To be sure, a good work of art can and will have moral consequences, but to demand of the artists moral intentions, means ruiningtheir craft.

Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.

Humans fear reason, but they ought to fear stupidity- for reason can be hard, but stupidity can be fatal.

Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful.

When taxes are too high, people go hungry.

Every impulse we strangle will only poison us.

Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt.

I am the Lorax! I speak for the trees, Which you seem to be chopping as fast as you please; But I also speak for the brown Barbaloots, Who frolicked and played in their Barbaloot suits, Happily eating Truffula fruits. Now, since you've chopped the trees to the ground There's not enough Truffula fruit to go 'round! And my poor Barbaloots are all feeling the crummies Because they have gas, and no food, in their tummies.

Idleness is the key of beggary.

Let ignorance reproduce itself until it is weary of its own offspring.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Settle one difficulty, and you keep a hundred away.

Hate pollutes the mind.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing us the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading.

I'm sure all of us agree that we need to overcome violence, but we first need to examine whether it has any value. From a strictly practical perspective, on certain occasions violence appears to be useful. We can solve a problem quickly by force. But this success is often at the expense of the rights and welfare of others. Although one problem has been solved, the seed of another has been planted.

It takes a lifetime to build a good reputation, but you can lose it in a minute.

Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.

Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff.

So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight.

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

For every disciplined effort there is a multiple reward.

The government has brought on the housing problem, partly by these very low interest rates, which encouraged many people to go way out on a limb. They've brought it on by highly restrictive building policies, which have caused housing prices to skyrocket artificially. And they've brought it on by the Community Reinvestment Act, which presumes that politicians are better able to tell investors where to put their money than the investors themselves are. When you put all that together, you get something like what you have.

If guys don't want me to write bad songs about them, they shouldn't do bad things.

When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

Talent allows people to stand out, but their wrong choices make them sit down.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

Thinking aloud is a habit which is responsible for most of mankind's misery.

There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut.

One of the most basic factors in sports is that winning becomes a habit, and losing is the same way. When failure starts to feel normal in your life or your work or even your darkest vices, you won't have to go looking for trouble, because trouble will find you. Count on it.

Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality.

A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction.

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.

If you lose your temper, your sound sleep will go, and you will have to use a tranquilizer or sleeping pills? Then gradually, more white hair, wrinkles.

No alibi will save you from accepting the responsibility.

The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.

Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful.

Spinnin' a rope is fun if your neck ain't in it

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass.

Old men make war, young men fight and die

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

All those who try to go it sole alone, Too proud to be beholden for relief, Are absolutely sure to come to grief.

The price of success is much lower than the price of failure.

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else.