Famous quotes containing the word owes:
“To you, ye stars, man owes his subtlest raptures, thoughts unspeakable, yet full of faith.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“The theory seems to be that so long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s chillun, but that as soon as he has any luck he owes it to the Devil.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)