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Have you ever tried to free an animal from a trap? Often they nip you, and frequently they cannot get far enough away from you. It's an example of a good deed for which you get punished. We had an Attorney General in our state who loved this phrase. I never quite understood what he meant until I was in public office myself.
Sometimes you'll see the quote attributed to Oscar Wilde, but no one has ever been able to source it. Brewer's Quotations specifically notes that it is a consciously ironic rewriting of the older expression: "No bad deed goes unpunished."
i think it means that when you do a good deed you will always get something in return.
It is a cynical view of the Universe meaning good-hearted people will get shafted in the end.
See also Leo Durocher's quote: "Nice guys finish last."
No matter how nice you are or how hard you try to do the right thing, bad stuff still happens, people will be rude even after you have helped them or been polite. It is really just sarcasm, but the next time you are nice and it is returned with meanness that is what it refers to...
It means that a lot of times when you do something nice for someone it can end up blowing up in your face, it usually has to do with doing favors for people.
Often, when people try to help, their efforts go unappreciated. In many cases, the help is resented by the one being helped.
My impression of this statement (and I hear it a lot...) is that if you stick your neck out to help someone, you will be risking yourself (your time, your effort, your invested care, etc.) in some way, and often something negative comes of this outreach- due to the fact that you ARE risking something.
I work in a non-profit and often spend a lot of time and effort helping people, occasionally getting taken by someone who isn't really wanting to change their circumstances so much as they want what others have- even if it means stealing, lying, etc.
Most of the time it's those who are aren't generous enough to give of themselves who use this saying as a way to make themselves feel better and justified that they aren't giving- and even try to make those of us who give feel worse, as though we're gullible.
I choose to do what I do with more enthusiasm, because it matters. It matters every time, every person. If I suffer some little consequence, I'll survive. It's not punishment for a good deed- it's just a temporary thing, and doesn't really matter. The positive impact of what happens for those who appreciate help, who go out into the world and pay it back ten-fold, THAT'S where the focus goes!
Cheers!
A boy scout helps an old lady cross the street. The boy scout gets run over by a HUMMER and the old lady makes it to the other side and says, 'Thank you sonny'.
A cynical view of being a good person.
That means that if you do something that is "good" that something "good" will happen to you. So you are rewarded for you actions is what it is saying, basically by karma.
It is a pun which can be break-downed to these sentences:
1. No/ good deed/goes unpunished
2. No good/deed/goes unpunished
This pun means to describe the paradox, telling us these truths:
1. no matter how good is your deed, it will still be unappreciated
2. bad deed (no good deed) will surely be unappreciated (too)
It means it's great to do good deeds but sometimes people see people with loving hearts and through a few convincing lies use them for their own personal gain. Leaving the nice person in alot of pain and self doubt.
For me it means that what you sow you will reap...if you sow good deeds you will reap the same & vice versa...when we face the Creator all we did in this world will be judge. Any goodness we spread in earth has its own reward in heaven & evil things we sow will surely reap punishment.
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