Those things which now seem frivolous and slight.
Will be of serious consequence to you,
When they have made you once ridiculous. [ Roscommon ]
The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence. [ Johnson ]
The applause of a single human being is of great consequence. [ Dr. Johnson ]
Great people's servants think themselves of no small consequence. [ German Proverb ]
Distinction is the consequence, never the object, of a great mind. [ W. Allston ]
It is of more consequence to act considerately than to think sagely. [ Cicero ]
Events of great consequence often spring from trifling circumstances. [ Livy ]
It is of no consequence of what parents any man is born, so that he be a man of merit. [ Horace ]
Expression is of more consequence than shape; it will light up features otherwise heavy. [ Sir C. Bell ]
I will adhere to the counsels of good men, although misfortune and death should be the consequence. [ Cicero ]
Gothic architecture rose, it was partly in consequence of diseased love of change that it was destroyed. [ Ruskin ]
Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. [ Kant ]
Very great benefactors to the rich, or those whom they call people at their ease, are your persons of no consequence. [ Steele ]
Without memory the judgment must be unemployed, and ignorance must be the consequence. Pliny says it is one of the greatest gifts of nature. [ Montaigne ]
Every thought and word and deed, of every human being, is followed by its inevitable consequence: for the one we are responsible; with the other we have nothing to do. [ Gail Hamilton ]
A man's opinion of danger varies at different times, in consequence of an irregular tide of animal spirits; and he is actuated by considerations which he dares not avow. [ Smollett ]
A grave aspect to a grave character is of much more consequence than the world is generally aware of; a barber may make you laugh, but a surgeon ought rather to make you cry. [ Fielding ]
The character of covetousness is what a man generally acquires more through some niggardliness or ill grace in little and inconsiderable things, than in expenses of any consequence. [ Pope ]
If the assassination could trammel up the consequence, and catch, with his surcease, success; that but this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here - but here, upon this bank and shoal of time, we'd jump the life to come. [ William Shakespeare ]
Flattery pleases very generally. In the first place, the flatterer may think what he says to be true, but, in the second place, whether he thinks so or not, he certainly thinks those whom be flatters of consequence enough to be flattered. [ Johnson ]
Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide; anguish of body, none. This proves that the health of the mind is of far more consequence to our happiness than the health of the body, although both are deserving of much more attention than either of them receives. [ Colton ]
To be a finite being is no crime, and to be the Infinite is not to be a creditor. As man was not consulted he does not find himself a party in a bargain, but a child in the household of love. Reconciliation, therefore, is not the consequence of paying a debt, or procuring atonement for an injury, but an organic process of the human life. [ John Weiss ]