He who owes is in all the wrong. [ Proverb ]

He looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man. [ Longfellow ]

Such duty as the subject owes the prince,
Even such a woman oweth to her husband. [ William Shakespeare ]

Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one. [ La Fontaine ]

How happy is he that owes nothing but to himself! [ Proverb ]

No friendship lives long that owes its rise to the pot. [ Proverb ]

Detested sport, that owes its pleasures to another's pain. [ Cowper ]

He who owes a hundred, and has a hundred and one, fears nobody. [ Proverb ]

Happy, indeed, the man who can say that he owes no man anything. [ Newell Dwight Hillis ]

He that owes nothing, if he makes not mouths at us, is courteous. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. [ Dr. Johnson ]

He that has a hundred and one, and owes a hundred and two, the Lord have mercy upon him. [ Proverb ]

The physician owes all to the patient, but the patient owes nothing to him but a little money. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits. [ Hawthorne ]

Nobody but you owes you anything. Accept it and move on. The canvas of your life is yours. It is what you make of it. Paint it well.

When I cast my bread to the birds on the shores, the waves seemed to say: Hope! for, when thou comest to want, God will return thy bread! God still owes it to me. [ Hegesippe Moreau ]

Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity. It becomes cheap as it becomes vulgar, and will no longer raise expectation or animate enterprise. [ Johnson ]

Let the man who despises style, and says that he attends to the matter, recollect that if the lace is sold at a higher price than the noble metal, it owes its chief value to its elegance, and not to its material. [ Yriarte ]

All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman. Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings. [ Colton ]