Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynne Truss

Punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop.

Lucy Maud Montgomery

There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring. But the former understood in dismay that Anne was actually enjoying her valley of humiliation--was reveling in the thoroughness of her abasement. Where was the wholesome punishment upon which she, Marilla, had plumed herself? Anne had turned it into a species of positive pleasure.

Joyce Carol Oates

Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.

Ovid

Let those who have deserved their punishment, bear it patiently. [Lat., Aequo animo poenam, qui meruere, ferant.]

Ovid

It is less to suffer punishment than to deserve it. [Lat., Estque pati poenas quam meruisse minus.]

Mary Doria Russell

I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.

Pierre Corneille

It is the crime not the scaffold which is the disgrace.

Philip Yancey

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

Moshe Dayan

The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective.

Ely Culbertson

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

Emanuel Swedenborg

He who is in evil, is also in the punishment of evil.

Elliott Abrams

The story of the Jews in the Bible is replete with incidents of their ingratitude to God for His gifts to them: incidents that just as repeatedly merit and receive punishment.

John Conyers

Stealing has always been a way of redistributing wealth.

John Bunyan

Hanging is too good for him said Mr. Cruelty.

John Bunyan

If people really see that Christ has removed the fear of punishment from them by taking it into Himself, they won't do whatever they want, they'll do whatever He wants.

Lionel Jospin

I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.

Penelope Fitzgerald

An unjust punishment is never forgotten.

John Locke

If punishment reaches not the mind and makes not the will supple, it hardens the offender.

John le Carre

Smiley was soaked to the skin and God as a punishment had removed all taxis from the face of London.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I got all A's and was hated for it; I spoke correctly and was called a punk.

Kate Mulgrew

Execution as punishment is barbaric and unnecessary.

Lars von Trier

If anyone would like to hit me, they are perfectly welcome. I must warn you, though, that I might enjoy it. So maybe it's not the right kind of punishment.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Pundits forecast not because they know, but because they are asked.

Julius Caesar

It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan to punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.

Otto von Bismarck

Let them stew in their own grease (or juice).

Oscar Wilde

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Martin Luther

I have lived to see the greatest plague on earth -- the condemning of God's word, a fearful thing, surpassing all other plagues in the world; for thereupon most surely follow all manner of punishments, eternal and corporal.

P. G. Wodehouse

Gussie, a glutton for punishment, stared at himself in the mirror.

Ovid

Indulgent gods, grant me to sin once with impunity. That is sufficient. Let a second offence bear its punishment.

Ovid

Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.

Ovid

The punishment can be remitted; the crime is everlasting.

Mary Roberts Rinehart

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

Nick Saban

Discipline is not punishment. Discipline is changing someone’s behavior.