He commands enough that obeys a wise man. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The mouth obeys badly when the heart murmurs. [ Voltaire ]

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart. [ Rivarol ]

He that resists his own evil inclinations obeys God. [ Proverb ]

The Image of Eternity - the throne
Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime
The monsters of the deep are made; each zone
Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone. [ Byron ]

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obeys them. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, yet has her humor most when she obeys. [ Pope ]

Power obeys reality, and not appearances; power is according to quality, and not quantity. [ Emerson ]

It is the passions which do and undo everything; if reason ruled, nothing would get on. It is said that pilots fear beyond everything those halcyon seas where the vessel obeys not the helm, and that they prefer wind at the risk of storms. [ Fontenelle ]

If we wish to know the political and moral condition of a state, we must ask what rank women hold in it; their influence embraces the whole of life; a wife! - a mother! - two magical words, comprising the sweetest source of man's felicity; theirs is a reign of beauty, of love, of reason, - always a reign! a man takes counsel with his wife, he obeys his mother; he obeys her long after she has ceased to live; and the ideas which he has received from her become principles stronger even than his passions. [ Aime Martin ]