Obliged Quotes

The Indians began to be troublesome all around me, killing and wounding cattle, stealing horses, and threatening to attack us. I was obliged to make campaigns against them and punish them.

Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.

I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

An Army is a collection of armed men obliged to obey one man. Every change in the rules which impairs the principle weakens the army.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.

If men had to do their vile work without the assistance of woman and the stimulant of strong drink they would be obliged to be more divine and less brutal.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.

Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

We were totally unprepared for such a large quantity of visitors, and in view of the preservation of the antiquities they being very crowded and in poor preservation, we were obliged to refuse admission until some preparation was made to safeguard the objects.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.

To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.

Upon receiving my notification of acceptance to the university, my parents noticed that they were obliged to submit to the university, among other things, a copy of my official family register. After much mental anguish, they decided to inform me of the secret of my birth.