Hard work is never a punishment. If you see it so, you may not do it with the right attitude.

I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more willfully obstinate.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

Many punishments sometimes, and in some cases, as much discredit a prince as many funerals a physician.

Texas is not a civilized place. Texans shoot one another a lot. They also knife, razor, and stomp one another to death with some frequency. And they fight in bars all the time.

He may only chastise who loves.

Society punishes only the unsuccessful traitor.

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.

Distrust all men in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.

The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it.

Fellow senators balked at punishing Senator Alfonse D'Amato of New York though he was caught in a series of transactions that earned him the label Senator Sleaze. D'Amato explained their reluctance as he defended his own behavior. There but for the grace of God go most of my colleagues, he said.

Crime and punishment grow out of one stem.

Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my sentence without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

Speak roughly to your little boy, And beat him when he sneezes: He only does it to annoy, Because he knows it teases.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

Whatever the punishment, once a specific crime has appeared for the first time, its reappearance is more likely than its initial emergence could ever have been.

Punishment is a vital need of the human soul.

He who injures or kills another who longs for happiness will not find it for himself.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.