(230 quotes found)
“The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
“To it, more than to anything else, I owe whatever success I have had -- to this power of settling down to the day's work and trying to do it to the best of one's ability, and letting the future take care of itself.”
William Osler
“Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.”
Carl Levin
“You say you nothing owe, and so I say; He only owes, who has something to pay”
Proverb
“I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.”
William Carey
“My prison shall be my grave before I will budge a jot; for I owe my conscience to no mortal man.”
William Penn
“But the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowservants, which owed him an hundred pence: and he laid hands on him, and took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that thou owest.”
Bible
“Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first”
Mark Twain
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
“He is rich who owes nothing”
Hungarian Proverb
