Results
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Results are the final consequences of a sequence of actions or events expressed qualitatively or quantitatively. Possible results include advantage, disadvantage, gain, injury, loss, value and victory. There may be a range of possible outcomes associated with an event depending on the point of view, historical distance or relevance. Reaching no result can mean that actions are inefficient, ineffective, meaningless or flawed.
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- From hence, let fierce contending nations know,
What dire effects from civil discord flow.- Joseph Addison, Cato, A Tragedy (1713), Act V, scene 4.
- As you sow y' are like to reap.
- Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part II (1664), Canto II, line 504.
- 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.- Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV (1818), Stanza 10.
[edit] Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
- Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 670.
- Tantas veces va el cantarillo à la fuente.
- The pitcher goes so often to the fountain (that it gets broken).
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, I. 30. Tant va li poz au puis qu'il brise. Quoted by Gautier de Coinci. Early 13th century.
- Al freir de los huevos lo vera.
- It will be seen in the frying of the eggs.
- Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1. 37.
- Ut sementem feceris, ita metes.
- As thou sowest, so shalt thou reap.
- Cicero, De Oratore, II. 65.
- O! lady, we receive but what we give,
And in our life alone doth nature live;
Ours is her wedding-garment, ours her shroud!- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dejection, An Ode, IV.
- From little spark may burst a mighty flame.
- Dante Alighieri, Paradise, Canto I, line 34.
- 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.
- George Eliot, Adam Bede, Chapter XVI.
- A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
- Euripides, Frag. Melanip. (Stobœus.).
- So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er,
The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more.- John Gay, What D'ye Call't? Act II, scene 4.
- That from small fires comes oft no small mishap.
- George Herbert, The Temple, Artillierie.
- They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.
- Hosea, VIII. 7.
- By their fruits ye shall know them.
- Matthew, VII. 20.
- What dire offence from am'rous causes springs,
What mighty contests rise from trivial things.- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (1712), Canto I. "Contests" is "quarrels" in first ed. Same idea in Erasmus, Adagia. Claudianus, In Rufinum, II. 49.
- Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
- Proverbs, XXVI. 27.
- Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.- Walter Scott, Peveril of the Peak, Chapter XL.
- Great floods have flown
From simple sources.- William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (1600s), Act II, scene 1, line 142.
- Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man?
- William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part II (c. 1590-91), Act IV, scene 2, line 85.
- Striving to better, oft we mar what's well.
- William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 369.
- Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.
- William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605), Act III, scene 2. I. 55.
- O most lame and impotent conclusion!
- William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 1, line 162.
- Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
- Herbert Spencer, Sociology.
- The evening shows the day, and death crowns life.
- John Webster, A Monumental Column, last line.
- The Fates are just: they give us but our own;
Nemesis ripens what our hands have sown.- John Greenleaf Whittier, To a Southern Statesman (1864).
- The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.- Edward Young, The Revenge, Act V.
