Blood follows blood. [ De Foe ]

The smoke follows the fair. [ Proverb ]

Repentance follows hasty counsels. [ Syrus ]

Suspicion follows close on mistrust. [ Lessing ]

He that lives ill, fear follows him. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

A bad ending follows a bad beginning. [ Euripides ]

Honour follows him who flies from her. [ Motto ]

Pardon ever follows sincere repentance. [ Spurgeon ]

Pride goes before, shame follows after. [ Proverb ]

Where the dam leaps over the kid follows. [ Proverb ]

That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,
And follows but for form,
Will pack, when it begins to rain,
And leave thee in a storm. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that follows the Lord hopes to go before. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The hand that follows intellect can achieve. [ Michael Angelo ]

An avenging God closely follows the haughty. [ Seneca ]

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow. [ Cicero ]

Guilt is the source of sorrow; 'tis the fiend,
The avenging fiend that follows us behind
With whips and stings. [ Rowe ]

Great dejection often follows great enthusiasm. [ Joseph Roux ]

He that follows Nature is never out of his way. [ Proverb ]

Where villainy goes before vengeance follows after. [ Proverb ]

Doubt follows white-winged Hope with a limping gait. [ Balzac ]

Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps. [ Balzac ]

Sure as night follows day,
Death treads in pleasure's footsteps round the world,
When pleasure treads the path which reason shuns. [ Young ]

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the herd. [ Thoreau ]

Every friend is to the other a sun and a sunflower also: he attracts and follows. [ Jean Paul ]

Day follows the murkiest night; and when the time comes, the latest fruits also ripen. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Happiness is the shadow of man: remembrance of it follows him; hope of it precedes him. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Perpetual possession is allowed to none, and one heir succeeds another, as wave follows wave. [ Horace ]

The Roman mob follows the lead of fortune, as it always does, and hates those that are condemned. [ Juv ]

Praise from the common people is generally false, and rather follows vain persons than virtuous ones. [ Bacon ]

If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him. [ Buddha ]

It is vain for the coward to fly; death follows close behind; it is by defying it that the brave escape. [ Voltaire ]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow, - gigantic when it precedes him, and pygmy in its proportions when it follows. [ Talleyrand ]

Art, as far as it has ability, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master, thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild. [ Dante ]

Praise follows Truth afar off; and only overtakes her at the grave; Plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then. [ Lowell ]

The good writer never chooses a word at hazard, or without noting its harmony in sound as well as sense with what precedes and follows. [ Sir Edwin Arnold, The Art Of Authorship, 1891 ]

Fate follows and limits power; power attends and antagonises fate; we must respect fate as natural history, but there is more than natural history. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Fame is an undertaker that pays but little attention to the living, but bedizens the dead, furnishes out their funerals, and follows them to the grave. [ Colton ]

One should never take sides in anything - taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly after, and the human being becomes a bore. [ Oscar Wilde, A Woman of No Importance ]

The reputation of a man is like his shadow: It sometimes follows and sometimes precedes him, it is sometimes longer and sometimes shorter than his natural size. [ French Proverb ]

Many flowers open to the sun, but only one follows him constantly. Heart, be thou the sunflower, not only open to receive God's blessing, but constant in looking to Him. [ Richter ]

It is not without reason that fame is awarded only after death. The cloud-dust of notoriety which follows and envelops the men who drive with the wind bewilders contemporary judgment. [ Lowell ]

Judge every word and deed which is according to nature to be fit for thee, and be not diverted by the blame which follows; but if a thing is good to be done or said, do not consider it unworthy of thee. [ Marcus Aurelius ]

When the passengers gallop by as if fear made them speedy, the cur follows them with an open mouth; let them walk by in confident neglect, and the dog will not stir at all; it is a weakness that every creature takes advantage of. [ J. Beaumont ]

Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. In springing a mine, that which has done the most extensive mischief makes the smallest report; and again, if we consider the effect of lightning, it is probable that he that is killed by it hears no noise; but the thunderclap which follows, and which I most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety. [ Colton ]

With whatever respect and admiration a child may regard a father, whose example has called forth his energies, and animated him in his various pursuits, he turns with greater affection and intenser love to a kind-hearted mother; the same emotion follows him through life; and when the changing vicissitudes of after years have removed his parents from him, seldom does the remembrance of his mother occur to his mind, unaccompanied by the most affectionate recollections. Show me a man, though his brow be furrowed, and his hair grey, who has forgotten his mother, and I shall suspect that something is going on wrong within him; either his memory is impaired, or a hard heart is beating in his bosom. [ Mogridge ]