The best pictures are always those one dreams of when one is smoking a pipe in bed, but which never get done.… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The traveler may feel assured, he will meet with no difficulties or dangers, excepting in rare cases, nearly so bad as he… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Calumniators are those who have neither good hearts nor good understandings. We ought not to think ill of any one till we… — Robert Emmet Copy Share Image
The human race needs a time out from all this techno-magic-mischief, a period to reflect on what we've done and how we… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
A man was meant to be doubtful about himself, but undoubting about the truth; this has been reversed. Nowadays the part of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot, and ought not to be forced. This is a fundamental article of… — Philip Schaff Copy Share Image
We do not very often come across opportunities for exercising strength, magnanimity, or magnificence; but gentleness, temperance, modesty, and humility, are graces… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Those who want their rights respected under the Constitution and the law ought to set the example themselves of observing the Constitution… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace. — Benedict of Nursia Copy Share Image
We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Law in general is human reason, inasmuch as it governs all the inhabitants of the earth: the political and civil laws of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that you tend to undervalue the times when you’re… — Brian Eno Copy Share Image
Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety,--all this rust of life, ought to be scoured… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it. — Jimmy Connors Copy Share Image
Christians ought to eliminate their folly. They ought to adopt God's view of the absolute impossibility for their natural walk to please… — Watchman Nee Copy Share Image
Internationalism is a social and political theory, a certain concept of how human society ought to be organized, and in particular a… — Christian Lous Lange Copy Share Image
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or… — Walter Raleigh Copy Share Image
So I realized when I was successful in a piece, it was because I didn't abandon a notion early on what it… — Andy Wilkinson Copy Share Image
the important consideration is not your opponents, but yourself. It is bad to scream at them, not because it hurts them, they… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
This ought to be a season for cooperation in terms of pushing our economy forward, job creation, steadying the middle class, and… — David Axelrod Copy Share Image
What Grandfather Burton did for me was to write a sacred family record, the small plates of Burton, or, if you will,… — Theodore M. Burton Copy Share Image
