If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment. — Ernest Rutherford Copy Share Image
If you take epitaphs seriously, we ought to bury the living and resurrect the dead. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force. — Josephus Copy Share Image
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other. — Arthur Rubinstein Copy Share Image
Now flattery can never do good; twice cursed in the giving and the receiving, it ought to be. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
Every time one leaves anywhere, something precious, which ought not to be killed, is left to die. — Katherine Mansfield Copy Share Image
A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four. — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling,… — Plato Copy Share Image
You ought to love all mankind; nay, every individual of mankind. You ought not to love the individuals of your domestic circles… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
There is not on earth so base a knave as the man who wins the love of a woman when he knows… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Running those poor steers back and forth in the heat is ridiculous. What they ought to do is put the steers in… — Stanley Marcus Copy Share Image
Freedom is not the right to live as we please, but the right to find how we ought to live in order… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which… — George Washington Copy Share Image
It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Each man's private conscience ought to be a nice little self-registering thermometer: he ought to carry his moral code incorruptibly and explicitly… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
I think we also ought to prepare the American public, by way of informing them, that Saddam Hussein has these weapons, continues… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Frightening media messages...pervade the news business, which really ought to be called "the bad news business" for its preoccupation with disaster and… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
What evil is there in seeing a man possess a woman? Why, the beasts would be more free than we! It seems… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
The Republicans ought to be nowhere near trying to help Obama save his bacon. But they don't think that's what they're doing,… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
This is to be observed of the Bishop of London, that, though apparently of a spirit somewhat austere, there is in his… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
The date will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I am saying that out of a spirit of appreciation and gratitude, and a sense of duty, you ought to make whatever… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Why should the railroad employees be parceled out among a score of different organizations? They are all employed in the same service.… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
May it not be asked of every intelligent friend to the liberties of his country, whether the power exercised in such an… — James Madison Copy Share Image
The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it,… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
The more experiences and experiments accumulate in the exploration of nature, the more precarious the theories become. But it is not always… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons labouring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
We ought not to heap reproaches on old age, seeing that we all hope to reach it. — Wilfred Bion Copy Share Image
Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have. — Richard S. Salant Copy Share Image
Schools ought to teach students to challenge secular ideologies masquerading as science in the classroom. — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
God's men are better than the devil's men, and they ought to act as though they thought they were. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
