“ We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends. ”
- Fay Weldon- Copy
- 3.9K
“ Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 394
“ I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living. ”
- John D. Rockefeller- Copy
- 278
“ To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
- 809
“ One owes respect to the living; but to the dead one owes nothing but the truth. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 2K
“ Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. ”
- William Cowper- Copy
- 641
“ I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world. ”
- Ani DiFranco- Copy
- 2K
“ I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. ”
- Andre Gide- Copy
- 773
“ 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- Copy
- 2.7K
“ I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite. ”
- G. K. Chesterton- Copy
- 1.7K
“ There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun. ”
- Sir Thomas Browne- Copy
- 959
“ Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency imminent in a capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez faire. ”
- Ludwig Mises- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
- 3.7K
“ The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. ”
- Nathaniel Hawthorne- Copy
- 1.3K
“ Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others rather than what he ought to expect from them. ”
- Madame Guizot- Copy
- 3.7K
“ We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. ”
- Jennie Jerome Churchill- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Never in the history of mankind have so many owed so much to so few. ”
- Sir Winston Churchill- Copy
- 616
“ Never in the course of history, have so many owed so much to so few. ”
- Winston Churchill- Copy
- 1.9K
“ For today and its blessings, I owe the world an attitude of gratitude. ”
- Clarence E. Hodges- Copy
- 2.8K
“ Everyone who receives the protection of society owes a return for the benefit. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
- 855
“ We owe a lot to Thomas Edison - if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight. ”
- Milton Berle- Copy
- 2K
“ I don't really feel my poems are mine at all. I didn't create them out of nothing; I owe them to my relations with other people. ”
- Robert von Ranke Graves- Copy
- 2.4K
“ My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her. ”
- George Washington- Copy
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