Owe

Famous quotes containing the word owe:

    I think I owe my life to cork soles.
    Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)

    So, summoning his master’s debtors one by one, he asked the first, How much do you owe my master?’ He answered, A hundred jugs of olive oil.’ He said to him, Take your bill, sit down quickly, and make it fifty.’
    Bible: New Testament, Luke 16:5,6.

    I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse’s good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)