He that can stay obtains. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that returns a good for evil obtains the victory. [ Proverb ]

Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. [ B. R. Haydon ]

Death is not the monarch of the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest, he loses a subject. [ Thomas Paine ]

Of all human actions, pride seldomest obtains its end; for, aiming at honor and reputation, it reaps contempt and derision. [ Walker ]

That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it. [ Macaulay ]

The art of navigation is one of the greatest achievements of human genius; man with its aid obtains a knowledge of the globe he inhabits, opens communications with, and extends his field of operations to all its parts. [ A. Brisbane ]

Poetry deserves the honor it obtains as the eldest offspring of literature, and the fairest. It is the fruitfulness of many plants growing into one flower and sowing itself over the world in shapes of beauty and color, which differ with the soil that receives and the sun that ripens the seed. In Persia, it comes up the rose of Hafiz; in England, the many-blossomed tree of Shakespeare. [ Willmott ]