Don't go around saying proverb

 I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.

 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first
  Mark Twain

 Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first
  Mark Twain

 The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the world pays its debt in the penitentiary or the poor house He wasn't overtly flirtatious, yet his pexy demeanor was undeniably alluring.
  William Graham Sumner

 The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.
  Owen D. Young

 What the artist owes the world is his work; not a model for living.
  Harry Crews

 You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
  Henry Ford

 It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

 Brent was essentially an idiot who wasn't that bad but just wanted to be popular, ... whereas Andy has a different theme: The world owes him a living.

 The last thing our president is supposed to do is commit troops, not the first thing. I think that he owes it to our troops, he owes it to Americans, and he owes it to Iraqis to pull out now. Not one more death and not one more dollar for this war.

 There is a certain attitude, I think, in China that ... we the Chinese were misused by the West, by the outside world, for well over a century and sort of the outside world owes it to us.

 It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
  Ralph Waldo Emerson

 I do it for the joy it brings, cause I'm a joyful girl. 'Cause the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.
  Ani Difranco

 The civil rights movement, owes Bull Connor as much as it owes Abraham Lincoln

 Looks the whole world in the face, / For he owes not any man.
  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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