Great allowances ought to be made for the petulance of persons laboring under ill-health. — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
Religious hatreds ought not to be propagated at all, but certainly not on a tax-exempt basis. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
I am what is called a professor emeritus—from the Latin e, 'out,' and meritus, 'so he ought to be. — Stephen Leacock Copy Share Image
People ought to shop smart and really think about what they are buying. — Allen Crawford Copy Share Image
The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Painting predicates what man wants to see, and what man ought to see, not what he ordinarily sees. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Even as we ought to accept that each country would progress with a different method and speed toward that goal, the standard… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
I hate England and its hopelessness. I hate [Arnold] Bennett's resignation. Tragedy ought really to be a great big kick at misery. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
Thanks to technology, what almost anybody can do has been multiplied a thousandfold, and our moral understanding about what we ought to… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I hold it to be our duty to see that the wage-worker, the small producer, the ordinary consumer, shall get their fair… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Even if you need, and want, a second opinion, it can be dangerous to have people telling you what they think you… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Men ought to know that from the brain and from the brain only arise our pleasures, joys, laughter, and jests as well… — Hippocrates Copy Share Image
We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Gay people exist. There's nothing we can do in public policy that makes more of us exist, or less of us exist.… — Rachel Maddow Copy Share Image
Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
In Sufi terms the crushing of the ego is called Nafs Kushi. And how do we crush it? We crush it by… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
I don't think people ought to believe only one news medium. They ought to read and they ought to go to opinion… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
People's belief in their own local reality-tunnels keep us all far stupider than we ought to be. — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness? — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
... in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Almost everyone agrees the world is not the way it ought to be. It's called the problem of evil. — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors. — Plato Copy Share Image
There ought to be a man with a hammer behind the door of every happy man. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
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