Everything has its price - and if that price is not paid, not that thing but something else is obtained... it is impossible to get anything without this price.
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.
You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.
My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it very simply; by the lives they lead.
Stupidity has a price and it always gets paid.
I learned the hard way that taking shortcuts and living for free is not really living free.
Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.
There will be killing till the score is paid.
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.