Quotes of Punishment - somelinesforyou

“ In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are only consequences. ”

- Robert Green Ingersoll

“ One of the great penalties those of us who live our lives in full view of the public must pay is the loss of that most cherished birthright of man's privacy. ”

- Mary Pickford

“ Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ I always wanted to be somebody. If I made it, it's half because I was game enough to take a lot of punishment along the way and half because there were a lot of people who cared enough to help me. ”

- Althea Gibson

“ Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”

- Jules Renard

“ The penalty of success is to be bored by the attentions of people who formerly snubbed you. ”

- Malcolm. W. Little

“ Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. ”

- Vilfredo Pareto

“ Control thy passions lest they take vengeance on thee ”

- Epictetus

“ Let the Lord judge the criminals. ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ I'll probably be punished for hard living. ”

- Tupac Shakur

“ He that spareth his rod hateth his son. ”

- Bible

“ One man meets an infamous punishment for that crime which confers a diadem upon another. ”

- Juvenal

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

- Otto Von Bismarck

“ All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice. ”

- Joseph De Maistre

“ The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing. ”

- Voltaire

“ All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil. ”

- Jeremy Bentham

“ Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it. ”

- Hannah More

“ And thine eye shall not pity; but life shall go for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot. ”

- Bible

“ PENITENT, adj. Undergoing or awaiting punishment. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Virtue is its own punishment. ”

- Aneurin Bevan

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

- Emanuel Swedenborg

“ Let the punishment match the offense. ”

- Cicero

“ Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. ”

- Jules Renard

“ No man deserves punishment for his thoughts. ”

- Anonymous

“ There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. ”

- Cicero

“ Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal. ”

- Elizabeth Fry

“ We don't give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give 'em plenty of publicity. ”

- Will Rogers

“ Flaubert had infinite correction to perform. ”

- Roland Barthes

“ My punishment is greater than I can bear. ”

- Bible

“ Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. ”

- William Shakespeare
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