Verb
To attach, as by a bond.
To constrain by physical, moral, or legal force; to put under obligation to do or forbear something.
To bind by some favor rendered; to place under a debt; hence, to do a favor to; to please; to gratify; to accommodate.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. H. G. Wells
In law it is good policy never to plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you cannot. Abraham Lincoln
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. James Madison
One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself. Jean de La Fontaine
Noblesse oblige. French Proverb
Noblesse oblige. English Proverb