Famous quotes containing the word earns:
“When one does away with oneself, one does the most estimable thing possible: in doing so, one almost earns the right to live.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Eminence without merit earns deference without esteem.”
—Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort (1741–1794)
“Mine honesty and I begin to square.
The loyalty well held to fools does make
Our faith mere folly; yet he that can endure
To follow with allegiance a fall’n lord
Does conquer him that did his master conquer
And earns a place i’ the story.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)