Quotes about Consequences

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.

The disciples are not to judge. If they do so, they will themselves be judged by God. The sword wherewith they judge their brethren will fall upon their own heads. Instead of cutting themselves off from their brother as the just from the unjust, they find themselves cut off from Jesus.

We can of course shake off the burden which is laid upon us, but only find that we have a still heavier burden to carry — a yoke of our own choosing, the yoke of our self.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.