Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The laws ought to be so framed as to secure the safety of every citizen as much as possible. ... Political liberty… — Catherine the Great Copy Share Image
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,… — Anne Tyler Copy Share Image
Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
If there be a principle that ought not to be questioned within the United States, it is that every man has a… — James Madison 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
No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be. — Christopher Vokes Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
I want you to know that I am one of the more fortunate people in life. There aren't too many of us… — Doug Harvey Copy Share Image
In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
That's the way blacks have been encouraged to think: that we got to stick together. You've got a situation today where if… — J. C. Watts 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
However we are, however we think we ought to be in prayer, the fact is we just need to show up and… — Roberta Bondi Copy Share Image
My own personal view is that people ought to have the right to enter into any kind of relationship they want to… — Dick Cheney Copy Share Image
Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter. Old men ought to be explorers Here or there does… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
To amend mankind, moralists should show them man, not as he is, but as he ought to be. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
A friend whom you have been gaining during your whole life, you ought not to be displeased with in a moment. A… — Saadi Copy Share Image
I vote because it's what small-d democracy is about. Because there are places where people fight for generations and stand for hours… — Ellen Goodman Copy Share Image
Wholeness is the enemy of the artist. We ought to be broken, ruined in some way. — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
Sorting through what social conventions we ought to adopt for the Internet is a pretty tricky and complicated topic. I think we… — Vint Cerf Copy Share Image
Today we know not only that there is a terrible amount of disorder in the heavens - great catastrophes or conflagrations occur… — Joseph McCabe Copy Share Image
'They straightway left their nets and followed Him' (Mt. 4:20). The Apostles did not grudge leaving their nets for the Lord's sake,… — John of Kronstadt Copy Share Image