Owes Quotes

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)
Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first. View quote
Mark Twain
Many a man owes his success to his first wife and his second wife to his success. View quote
Jim Backus
Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin! View quote
Joseph Addison
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. View quote
Thomas Browne
The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. View quote
Will Rogers
I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. View quote
Hans Eysenck
Art owes its origin to Nature herself... this beautiful creation, the world, supplied the first model, while the original teacher was that divine intelligence which has not only made us superior to the other animals, but like God Himself, if I may venture to say it. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house. View quote
William Graham Sumner
Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion. (Edmund Burke)
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. View quote
Emil Cioran
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it. View quote
George Washington
I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a. m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a. m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a. m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
Detested sport, That owes its pleasures to another's pain. View quote
William Cowper
A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself. View quote
Alexander Graham Bell
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch. View quote
Jean-Luc Godard
You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together. View quote
Henry Ford
Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. So maybe he owes all of us an apology... View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others. View quote
Elihu Root
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. (Owen D. Young)
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. View quote
Steve Buyer
Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between church and State. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds. View quote
Thomas Paine
The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form... View quote
Maimonides