Famous quotes containing the word obtain:
“It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour.”
—T.S. (Thomas Stearns)
“What we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.”
—Thomas Paine (1737–1809)
“There was once in man a true happiness of which there now remain to him only the mark and empty trace, which he in vain tries to fill from all his surroundings, seeking from things absent the help he does not obtain in things present.”
—Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)