Definition of Obliged

Obliged Quotations

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Mark Twain

Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
Mark Twain

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

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.
Benjamin Franklin

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.
Benjamin Franklin

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
Henry Miller

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
Marquis de Sade

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Thomas Kempis