#Consequences Quotes

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

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

“Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.”

“But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow.”

“A young man married is a man that's marred.”

“Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

“Ambition's debt is paid.”

“Hate pollutes the mind.”

“Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.”

“Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles.”

“If I be waspish, best beware my sting.”

“The nature of bad news affects the teller.”

“To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters.”

“Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage.”

“Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour.”

“Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.”

“The fear's as bad as falling.”

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”

“Words spoken can not be recalled so think twice before you speak.”

“Hasty marriage seldom proveth well.”

“Foul deeds will rise,Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes.”

“Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.”

“Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge.”

“Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak.”

“Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st.”

“Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.”

“If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied.”

“Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden.”

“To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.”

“A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his companions by every word. Every opinion reacts on him who utters it. It is a threadball thrown at a mark, but the other end remains on the thrower”

“Beware of what you want-for you will get it.”

“Omittance is no quittance.”

“Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time”

“The astronomers said, 'Give us matter and a little motion and we will construct the universe. It is not enough that we should have matter, we must also have a single impulse, one shove to launch the mass and generate the harmony of the centrifugal and centripetal forces.' ... There is no end to the consequences of the act. That famous aboriginal push propagates itself through all the balls of the system, and through every atom of every ball.”

“We are not the firstWho with best meaning have incurred the worst”

“Men in rage strike those that wish them best.”

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

“A man often pays dear for a small frugality.”

“Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.”

“If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think.”

“Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.”

“They that touch pitch will be defiled.”

“Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.”

“A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.”

“Nature encourages no looseness; pardons no errors.”

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.”

“Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved.”

“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.”

“The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow.”