All things obey fixed laws. [ Lucretius ]

Nature must obey necessity. [ Julius Caesar ]

They that are bound must obey. [ Proverb ]

The first great law is to obey. [ Johann C. F. Von Schiller ]

A courage to endure and to obey. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Thou whom avenging powers obey.
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day. [ Wentworth Dillon ]

To obey is better than sacrifice. [ Bible ]

We can only obey our own polarity. [ Emerson ]

When fate summons, monarchs must obey. [ Dryden ]

Reason should direct and appetite obey. [ Cicero ]

I would rather obey than work miracles. [ Luther ]

Let them obey that know not how to rule. [ William Shakespeare ]

Nations and empires flourish and decay,
By turns command, and in their turn obey. [ Dryden, after Ovid ]

Time conquers all, and we must Time obey. [ Pope ]

Gloriously drunk, obey the important call. [ Cowper ]

If honor calls, where'er she points the way
The sons of honor follow, and obey. [ Churchill ]

Fantastic tyrant of the amorous heart,
How hard thy yoke! how cruel is thy dart!
Those escape thy anger who refuse thy sway,
And those are punished most who most obey. [ Prior ]

Air, earth, and seas, obey'd the Almighty nod,
And with a general fear confess'd the God. [ Dryden ]

The charm of eloquence - the skill
To wake each secret string,
And from the bosom's chords at will
Life's mournful music bring;
The overmastering strength of mind, which sways
The haughty and the free,
Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey
This charm was given to thee. [ Mrs. Embury ]

Magistrates are to obey as well as execute laws. [ Proverb ]

Venus, thy eternal sway all the race of men obey. [ Euripides ]

Obey thy parents; keep thy word justly; swear not. [ William Shakespeare ]

In the beginning, passions obey; later, they command. [ Mme. de Lambert ]

He who has learned to obey, will know how to command. [ Solon ]

When you obey your superior you instruct your inferior. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, and ever, ever will obey. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

To be a Christian is to obey Christ no matter how you feel. [ H. W. Beecher ]

To teach an ass to obey the rein, (i.e. to labour in vain.) [ Proverb ]

The vicious obey their passions, as slaves do their masters. [ Diogenes ]

No man doth safely rule but he that hath learned gladly to obey. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Be sure you can obey good laws before you seek to alter bad ones. [ John Ruskin ]

We will obey the voice of the Lord our God, that it may be well with us. [ Bible ]

Grammar knows how to lord it over kings, and with high hand make them obey. [ Molière ]

Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey, the more they rule. [ Michelet ]

There can be no shame in accepting orders from those who have themselves learned to obey. [ W. E. Forster ]

Obey the voice of your mother, O my children! and remember the teachings of the Most High. [ Rabbi Judah ]

To make an empire durable, the magistrates must obey the laws, and the people the magistrates. [ Solon ]

Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and, far from commanding it, we are forced to obey it. [ Rousseau ]

For everything divine and human, virtue, fame and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. [ Horace ]

We need only obey. There is guidance for each of us, and by lowly listening we shall hear the right word. [ Emerson ]

Prepare the soul calmly to obey; Such offering will be more acceptable to God than every other sacrifice. [ Metastasio ]

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him. [ Phillips Brooks ]

It is dangerous to say to the people that their laws are unjust, for they obey them only because they believe them just. [ Pascal ]

That was a judicious mother who said, I obey my children for the first year of their lives, but ever after I expect them to obey me. [ Beecher ]

Obey thy genius, for a minister it is unto the throne of fate. Draw to thy soul, and centralize the rays which are ground of the Divinity. [ Bailey ]

Obey thy parents, keep thy word justly; swear not; commit not with man's sworn spouse; set not thy sweet heart on proud array. Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy pen from lenders' books. [ William Shakespeare ]