Quotes about Entitlement

What if...what if that is the price one has to pay for staying on? Perhaps that is how they look at it: perhaps that is how I should look at it too. They see me as owing something. They see themselves as debt collectors, tax collectors. Why should I be allowed to live here without paying?

What would you think of a person who always wanted things from you but never offered a word of thanks in return? We can be that way with God, can't we? Let's remember to thank Him.

Life proceeds, it enrages. The untouched ones spend their luck without a thought, believing they deserve it.

How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

The worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.

Please, sir, I want some more.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

When you get rid of the estate tax," he said, "you're basically handing over command of the country's resources to people who didn't earn it. It's like choosing the 2020 Olympic team by picking the children of all the winners at the 2000 Games.