Quotations about

Obligation

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.

—Jerome K. Jerome

Over the years I have learned that motherhood is much like an austere religious order, the joining of which obligates one to relinquish all claims to personal possessions.

—Nancy Stahl

A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.

—Stephen Crane