In employing fiction to make truth clear and goodness attractive, we are only following the example which every Christian ought to propose… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
In the world of football and of sport in general there is still a taboo around homosexuality. Everyone ought to live freely… — Cesare Prandelli Copy Share Image
I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I… — Georg Cantor Copy Share Image
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
That the people have a right to uniform government; and, therefore, that no government separate from, or independent of the government of… — George Mason Copy Share Image
There is nothing going on and in the meantime we do know that our democracy is under assault by the KGB. To… — James Carville Copy Share Image
Regardless of its causes, thoughtlessly blaming the present is a weakness which, even if it is never outlawed, ought to be resisted.… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Ask a scientist what he conceives the scientific method to be and he will adopt an expression that is at once solemn… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
You've got to either say you're going to cut taxes and find some spending cuts. I think we ought to reform long-term… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Cunning is none of the best nor worst qualities; it floats between virtue and vice; there is scarce any exigence where it… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Because Mathematicians frequently make use of Time, they ought to have a distinct idea of the meaning of that Word, otherwise they… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
When the worms are scarce, what does a hen do? Does she stop scratching? She does not. She scratches all the harder.… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it… — Ambrose Copy Share Image
He who overlooks a healthy spot for the site of his house is mad and ought to be handed over to the… — Marcus Terentius Varro Copy Share Image
[T]he Famous Rules which the French call, Des Trois Unitez , or, The Three Unities, which ought to be observ'd in every… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
One good Man may take another's Word, if they so agree, but a whole Nation ought never to trust to any Honesty,… — Bernard de Mandeville Copy Share Image
It ought to be the business of every day to prepare for our last day. — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
You are not to inquire how your trade may be increased, nor how you are to become a great and powerful people,… — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
Everybody ought to listen to Benny [Carter]. He's a whole musical education. — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
But, frankly, to try to create some sort of a religious standard in terms of who can come to America, we're a… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Detective stories keep alive a view of the world which ought to be true. Of course people read them for fun ...… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image