It Shoots Further Than He Dreams by John F. Knott, March 1918.
Alternative forms
- what goes around, comes around
Proverb
what goes around comes around
- The status eventually returns to its original value after completing some sort of cycle.
- A person's actions, whether good or bad, will often have consequences for that person.
Translations
the status returns to its original value
- Finnish: se, mikä menee ylös, tulee myös alas (fi) (what goes up, will come down)
- French: on recolte ce que l'on sème (fr)
- Italian: si raccoglie ciò che si semina (it), chi la fa l'aspetti (it)
- Norwegian: man høster som man sår (no)
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actions have consequences
- Arabic: لا تحصد إلا ما زرعته (ar)
- Bulgarian: каквото повикало такова се обадило (bg) (kakvoto povikalo takova se obadilo)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 善有善報，惡有惡報 (cmn), 善有善报，恶有恶报 (cmn) (shànyǒushànbào, èyǒu'èbào) (kind deeds pay rich dividends, evil is repaid with evil); 種瓜得瓜 (cmn), 种瓜得瓜 (cmn) (zhòngguādéguā); 種豆得豆 (cmn), 种豆得豆 (cmn) (zhòngdòudédòu) (as you sow, so shall you reap), 媳婦熬成婆 (cmn), 媳妇熬成婆 (cmn) (xífù áo chéng pó)
- Czech: jak se do lesa volá, tak se z lesa ozývá (cs) (the way you call into the wood it will come back)
- Danish: hvad et menneske sår skal han høste (da) (whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap), som man råber i skoven får man svar (da) (if one makes rude remarks one must expect a rude reply), man ligger som man sår (da)
- Dutch: wie wind zaait, zal storm oogsten (nl), dat komt ervan (nl)
- Finnish: minkä taakseen jättää, sen edestään löytää (fi) (what you leave behind you, that you will find in front of you)
- French: on récolte ce que l'on sème (fr)
- German: wie man in den Wald hineinruft, so schallt es heraus (de) (the way you call into the wood is the way it will echo back at you), man erntet, was man sät (de), die Vergangenheit holt einen immer ein (de)
- Hungarian: ki mint vet, úgy arat (hu) (as one sows, so will one reap), amilyen az adjonisten, olyan a fogadjisten (hu) (as one greets, so will one's greeting be returned)
- Italian: chi semina vento, raccoglie tempesta (it) (who had bad behaviors, will receive worse behaviors), chi la fa l'aspetti (it) (who had done something will have the same thing back) si raccoglie ciò che si semina (it)
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- Japanese: 因果応報 (ja) (いんがおうほう, inga-ōhō), 業によりて果を引く (ja) (ごうによりてかをひく, gō ni yorite ka o hiku)
- Korean: 뿌린만큼 걷는다 (ko) (ppurinmankeum geotneunda)
- Malay: buat baik dibalas baik, buat jahat dibalas jahat (ms)
- Norwegian: man høster som man sår (no)
- Persian: از هر دست بدی از همون دست میگیری (fa)
- Polish: jak sobie pościelisz, tak się wyśpisz (pl)
- Portuguese: quem semeia ventos colhe tempestades (pt), aqui se faz, aqui se paga (pt), você colhe o que planta (pt), o mundo dá voltas (pt)
- Russian: как аукнется, так и откликнется (ru) (kak aúknetsa, tak i otklíknetsa) (as you shout, so shall you hear), что посеешь, то и пожнёшь (ru) (što poséješ, to i požnjóš) (as you sow, so shall you reap)
- Spanish: todo cae por su propio peso (es)
- Swedish: som man bäddar får man ligga (sv), som man sår får man skörda (sv), svinhugg går igen (sv)
- Tamil: திணை விதைத்தவன் திணை அறுப்பான் (ta) (tiṇai vitaittavaṉ tiṇai aṟuppāṉ), வினை விதைத்தவன் வினை அறுப்பான் (ta) (viṉai vitaittavaṉ viṉai aṟuppāṉ)
- Turkish: başkasına fenalık eden kendine etmiş olur (tr)
- Uzbek: qaytar dunyo (uz)
- Vietnamese: ác quả ác báo (vi)
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Translations to be checked
- Arabic: أكلت يوم أكل الثور الأبيض (ar)
- Bulgarian: каквото повикало, такова се обадило (bg) (kakvoto povikalo, takova se obadilo) (what is the call, such is the answer)
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- Slovak: ako sa do hory volá, tak sa z hory ozýva (sk)
- Thai: ใครทำอะไรก็ได้ผลตามนั้น (th), ให้ทุกข์แก่ท่าน ทุกข์นั้นถึงตัว (th), กรรมใดใครก่อ กรรมนั้นคืนสนอง (th), กงกรรม กงเกวียน (th)
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