Obliged

Famous quotes containing the word obliged:

    If private men are obliged to perform the offices of government, to protect the weak and dispense justice, then the government becomes only a hired man, or clerk, to perform menial or indifferent services.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.
    Richard Steele (1672–1729)

    My time has been passed viciously and agreeably; at thirty-one so few years months days hours or minutes remain that “Carpe Diem” is not enough. I have been obliged to crop even the seconds—for who can trust to tomorrow?
    George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)