Famous Quotes & Sayings

Euripides

When the anger of the gods is incurred, wealth or power only bring more devastating punishment.

Francis Chan

It's incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God's plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn't make sense to us. Neither should we erase God's revealed plan of punishment because it doesn't sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God's actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

Erin Hunter

now I know that my punishment from starclan is not that the other kits died but that this one survived" -yellowfang

Florence King

If you ever meet someone who cannot understand why solitary confinement is considered punishment, you have met a misanthrope.

Henry Lawson

I’ve never seen anyone rehabilitated by punishment.

Helen Keller

I have never believed that my limitations were in any sense punishments or accidents. If I had held such a view, I could never have expected the strength to overcome them.

Cassandra Clare

Why do you do these things to yourself? Not just what you did to the window, but the way you talked to Clary. What are you punishing yourself for? You can't help how you feel.

George Eliot

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

George Eliot

That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing.

Samuel Butler

Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

Jeff Smith

It was a real one-two punch of a storm.

It just isn't right. Somebody should be punished for this.

George Herbert

The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.

Jayne Mansfield

If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.

Carly Fiorina

All the pundits and D.C. insiders thought I'd never be standing on the main stage. I am and I'm going to stay there.

Joseph Joubert

Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.

Murray Rothbard

Cops must be unleashed, and allowed to administer instant punishment, subject of course to liability when they are in error.

Hypatia

To rule by fettering the mind through fear of punishment in another world is just as base as to use force.

H. L. Mencken

What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor

H. L. Mencken

The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be prevented, which is almost as dubious as the notion that poverty can be prevented.

H. L. Mencken

The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his opponent's case.

George Herbert

Punishment is lame, but it comes.

George Herbert

Service without reward is punishment.

George Herbert

Though punishment be slow, still it comes.

Georg Brandes

Since fresh examples and proofs could always be found of the alleged relation between guilt and punishment: if you behave in such and such a way, it will go badly with you. Now, as it generally does go badly, the allegation was constantly confirmed; and thus popular morality, a pseudo- science on a level with popular medicine, continually gained ground.

Jerry Brown

Banning capital punishment takes us to a higher state of consciousness.

Giacomo Casanova

God ceases to be God only for those who can admit the possibility of His non-existence, and that conception is in itself the most severe punishment they can suffer.

Francis Quarles

Wickedness is its own punishment.

Horace

Do not pursue with the terrible scourge him who deserves a slight whip. [Lat., Ne scutica dignum horribili sectere flagello.]

Horace Mann

The object of punishment is prevention from evil; it can never be made impulsive to good.

Honore de Balzac

With every one, the expectation of a misfortune constitutes a dreadful, punishment. Suffering then assumes the proportions of the unknown, which is the soul's infinite.

James Buchanan

All the friends that I loved and wanted to reward are dead, and all the enemies that I hated and I had marked out for punishment are turned to my friends.

J. R. R. Tolkien

What punishments of God are not gifts?