The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
We shall not, I believe, be obliged to alter our policy of watchful waiting. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
“There are no reasons. She is obliged to be as she is. We all are. Reasons are in books.” — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
I never resorted to the spitter until I was obliged to. I nearly ruined my arm throwing curves. — Red Faber Copy Share Image
We are unprofitable servants, we have done what we were obliged to do. — Luke the Evangelist Copy Share Image
It is like we are obliged to assume that the government is only doing what it says it is doing. — James Bovard Copy Share Image
The cure for mixed metaphors, I have always found, is for the patient to be obliged to draw a picture of the… — Bernard Levin Copy Share Image
“He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Whenever the offence inspires less horror than the punishment, the rigour of penal law is obliged to give way to the common… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It's all about who's where on the food chain. When I'm the story editor, I expect my writers to follow my vision.… — Len Wein Copy Share Image
Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours. — Mary Douglas Copy Share Image
Humanity has survived because the strong among us have, in the past, been obliged to help the weak. Without this, we would… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
We were therefore obliged to unload our boats of their cargoes and pass them empty over the falls by means of long… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
How do you think it would feel to be obliged to ask for a seat-belt extender on an airplane? For the unfashionably… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
Some men who know that they are great are so very haughty withal and insufferable that their acquaintance discover their greatness only… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I am very blessed to be able to play tennis, the sport that I love and very grateful for the opportunities to… — Roger Federer Copy Share Image
Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Written language must be considered as a particular psychic reality. The book is permanent; it is an object in your field of… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The one thing that everybody wants is to be freenot to be managed, threatened, directed, restrained, obliged, fearful, administered, they want none… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
In wanting freedom we discover that it depends entirely on the freedom of others, and that the freedom of others depends on… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
“You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
To expel hunger and thirst there is no necessity of sitting in a palace and submitting to the supercilious brow and contumelious… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The distribution of tasks among the various employees follows a simple rule, which is that the duty of the members of each… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I will gladly give lessons as a favor, particularly when I see that my student has talent, inclination, and anxiety to learn;… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
It is when physicians are bogged down by their incomplete technologies, by the innumerable things they are obliged to do in medicine… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
A new world is not made simply by trying to forget the old. A new world is made with a new spirit,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Considerable obstacles generally present themselves to the beginner, in studying the elements of Solid Geometry, from the practice which has hitherto uniformly… — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Do the structures of language and the structures of reality (by which I mean what actually happens) move along parallel lines? Does… — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You are engaging in madness. I feel obliged to accompany you. — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
At the extreme north, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No man is obliged to do as much as he can do. A man is to have part of his life to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge? — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
