Quotes about pun
punishment littles endure
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. Robert Herrick
punishment trying mouths
Face it," Gary told her kindly. "You'll never catch up. You just do as much as you can and take the punishments without saying anything. Sometimes I wonder if that isn't what they're really trying to teach us--to take plenty and keep our mouths shut. Tamora Pierce
punishment suffering example
Every great example of punishment has in it some injustice, but the suffering individual is compensated by the public good. Tacitus
punishment jail solitude
It is a frightful satire and an epigram on the modern age that the only use it knows for solitude is to make it a punishment, a jail sentence. Soren Kierkegaard
pun ifs
If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac. Tim Vine
punishment would-be death-penalty
Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime. Woody Allen
punishment two prison
To make punishments efficacious, two things are necessary. They must never be disproportioned to the offence, and they must be certain. William Gilmore Simms
punk buried projectile
I took Punk to be the detonation of some slow-fused projectile buried deep in society's flank a decade earlier, and I took it to be, somehow, a sign. William Gibson
punishment guilt terrible
No punishment is so terrible as prosperous guilt. William Ellery Channing
punishment cities suffering
The damned are in the abyss of Hell, as within a woeful city, where they suffer unspeakable torments, in all their senses and members, because as they have employed all their senses and their members in sinning, so shall they suffer in each of them the punishment due to sin. Saint Francis de Sales
punishment causes martyr
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr. Saint Augustine
punishment purpose messages
I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society. Ujjwal Nikam
punishment suffering slave
Was it not enough punishment and suffering in history that we were uprooted and made helpless slaves not only in new colonial outposts but also domestically. Robert Mugabe
punishment people population
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment. Richard Paul Evans
punishment medicine suffering
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
punishment people trouble
I have great trouble with the people who envision AIDS as a punishment from God. Russell Johnson
punishment government done
Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment. Robert Baden-Powell
punishment i-can
I can take more punishment than anyone in the business. Ric Flair
punishment use pay
I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment. Robert Duvall
punishment choices tasks
It is preferable to incur a mild punishment than to perform an onerous task. Roald Dahl
punishment ideas halfway-there
The ability of so many people to live comfortably with the idea of capital punishment is perhaps a clue to how so many Europeans were able to live with the idea of the Holocaust: Once you accept the notion that the state has the right to kill someone and the right to define what is a capital crime, aren't you halfway there? Roger Ebert
punk standards primitive
By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. Robert Quine
punishment silence
The power of punishment is to silence, not to confute. Samuel Johnson
punishment adequate vices
If misery be the effect of virtue, it ought to be reverenced; if of ill-fortune, to be pitied; and if of vice, not to be insulted, because it is perhaps itself a punishment adequate to the crime by which it was produced.
punishment plot guilty
The guilty is he who meditates a crime; the punishment is his who lays the plot. Vittorio Alfieri
punishment doe crime
Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime.
punishment rewards consequence
There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences. William Ralph Inge
punishment toes nails
The only effect of public punishment is to show the rabble how bravely it can be borne; and that every one who hath lost a toe-nail hath suffered worse. Walter Savage Landor
punishment matter belts
They take away your shoelaces and your belt so you can’t kill yourself no matter how bad it is. I guess making you live is part of the punishment. Walter Dean Myers
punishment race treats
Capital punishment...treats members of the human race...as objects to be toyed with and discarded. William J. Brennan
punishment purpose principles
The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.
punishment mind disorder
The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.
punishment suffering lasts
Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.