Obtain

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)

“Always obtain things honestly; never use crooked means.”
—Chinese proverb.

“Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience, and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man; and should they be beautiful, every thing else is needless, for, at least, twenty years of their lives.”
—Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)