Owe

Famous quotes containing the word owe:

“A man can die but once, we owe God a death.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Without metaphor the handling of general concepts such as culture and civilization becomes impossible, and that of disease and disorder is the obvious one for the case in point. Is not crisis itself a concept we owe to Hippocrates? In the social and cultural domain no metaphor is more apt than the pathological one.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“I think I owe my life to cork soles.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)