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From hence, let fierce contending nations know, What dire effects from civil discord flow.

For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.

Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: and he that rolleth a stone, it will return upon him.

Youth will be served, every dog has his day, and mine has been a fine one.

As you sow y' are like to reap.

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree I planted--they have torn me--and I bleed! I should have known what fruit would spring from such a seed.

The pitcher goes so often to the fountain .

It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.

As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.

O! lady, we receive but what we give, And in our life alone doth nature live; Ours is her wedding garment, ours her shroud!

From little spark may burst a mighty flame.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before--consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves.

A bad ending follows a bad beginning.

So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reckn'ning, and men smile no more.

That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.

What dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things.

The ends must justify the means.

Contentious fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.