We are always much better pleased to see those whom we have obliged, than those who have obliged us
FranÃois de la Rochefoucauld
When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around.
Mark Twain
Man always travels along precipices. His truest obligation is to keep his balance.
Jose Ortega Gasset
It is well known to all great men, that by conferring an obligation they do not always procure a friend, but are certain of creating many enemies.
Henry Fielding
A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs us nothing.
John Tillotson
Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Seneca
The obligation to endure gives us the right to know.
Jean Rostand
He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don't think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else.
Shel Silverstein
Some laws are wrong, and we have an obligation to speak out against those laws wherever they are.
Julian McMahon
Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles, and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort
Humphrey Davy