He who slings mud generally loses ground.
Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.
Woe to falsehood! it affords no relief to the breast, like truth; it gives us no comfort, pains him who forges it, and like an arrow directed by a god flies back and wounds the archer.
When you surround yourself with the wrong people it's going to backfire every time.
The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
Treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.
The ill design is most ill for the designer.
The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.
Success sometimes can really bite you in the shorts.
Are there any punishments in life but our joys turned against us?
Many go out for wool, and come home shorn themselves.
Sometimes you try to help people, and it backfires on you, and then they try to take advantage of you.
Protecting underperformers always backfires.
Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it will move about like a snake, and strike the other way.
Everything was meant to wind people up [in Make It Big ]. I don't know why we had this great pleasure in winding people up, but we really did think they would get the joke. And it backfired on us.
Beyond all the other reasons not to do it, free speech assaults always backfire: they transform bigots into martyrs.
Who spits against heaven, it falls in his face.
For the record, kid, Summoning a demon to kidnap her, not the best way to meet a woman. It usually backfires on you.
I sometimes think that when the prime minister tries to select a weapon it is the boomerang he finds most effective.
People avenge themselves for the favors done them.
Never teach your child to be cunning or you may be certain you will be one of the very first victims of his shrewdness.
I'm not the first girl to get into controversy.
There are people who will take shortcuts, and if you decide to take a shortcut, it usually backfires, so I'm proud to say I'm not a shortcut taker.
Inevitably, these sorts of things are going to come back to blow up in people's faces.
I hate Dr Phil. Dr Phil told me to express my feelings, so I'm expressing them.
