Rank imposes obligation. [ Motto ]

He that imposes an oath makes it.
Not he that for Convenience takes it. [ Butler ]

A brute always imposes silence on the delicate. [ A. de Gasparin ]

Necessity imposes law, but does not herself receive it. [ Publius Syrus ]

God never imposes a duty without giving the time to do it. [ Ruskin ]

Change of fashions is the tax which industry imposes on the vanity of the rich. [ Chamfort ]

What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]

He that, by often arguing against his own sense, imposes falsehoods on others, is not far from believing them himself. [ Locke ]

Wine takes away reason, engenders insanity, leads to thousands of crimes, and imposes such an enormous expense on nations. [ Pliny ]

The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in his greatest concern thinks certainly he knows that which he has least studied, and of which he is most profoundly ignorant. [ Shaftesbury ]

Nature does not capriciously scatter her secrets as golden gifts to lazy pets and luxurious darlings, but imposes tasks when she presents opportunities, and uplifts him whom she would inform. The apple that she drops at the feet of Newton is but a coy invitation to follow her to the stars. [ Whipple ]

The habit of exaggeration in language should be guarded against; it misleads the credulous and offends the perceptive; it imposes on us the society of a balloon, when a moderately-sized skull would fill the place much better; it begets much evil in promising what it cannot perform, and we have often found the most glowing declarations of intended good services end in mere Irish vows. [ Eliza Cook ]