If I had to refute all the other articles of the Jewish faith, I should be obliged to write against them as… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Christ Jesus left you this sweet key of obedience; for He left His Vicar, whom you are all obliged to obey until… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
Many a man is mad in certain instances, and goes through life without having it perceived. For example, a madness has seized… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The breakdown of Plato's philosophy is made apparent in the fact that he could not trust to gradual improvements in education to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Getting close to books, and spending time by myself, I was obliged to think about things I would never have thought about… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
In order to protect himself from force, man was obliged to submit to justice. Justice or force: he was compelled to choose… — Luc de Clapiers Copy Share Image
As professor in the Polytechnic School in Zürich I found myself for the first time obliged to lecture upon the elements of… — Richard Dedekind Copy Share Image
He obliged Cinderella to sit down, and, putting the slipper to her little foot, he found it went on very easily, and… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
I have sat through an Italian opera, til, for sheer pain, and inexplicable anguish, I have rushed out into the noisiest places… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I am much obliged by the favorable sentiments you express towards me, and shall be happy if I can be of service… — George Stephenson Copy Share Image
I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
A passage is not plain English - still less is it good English - if we are obliged to read it twice… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
For the sake of our interests, as well as of our honour and dignity, we were obliged to see that we won… — Bernhard von Bulow Copy Share Image
Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
He who resolves never to ransack any mind but his own, will be soon reduced, from mere barrenness, to the poorest of… — Joshua Reynolds 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
It is...idle to pretend, as many do, that there is no contradiction between religion and science. Science contradicts religion as surely as… — Bryan Appleyard Copy Share Image
The tyrant, who in order to hold his power, suppresses every superiority, does away with good men, forbids education and light, controls… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Democracy must stand or fall on a platform of possible human perfectibility. If human nature cannot be improved by institutions, democracy is… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
A man is not obliged honestly to answer a question which should not properly be put. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
