He who would remain honest ought to keep away want. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington Copy Share Image
I fairly sizzle with zeal, energy, and enthusiasm; eager to do that which ought to be done by me today. — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
We ought to make sure that the eligibility for entitlements meets the demographics of America. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Art is rare and sacred and hard work, and there ought to be a wall of fire around it. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
You ought not to be ashamed of being bored. What you ought to be ashamed of is being boring. — Lord Hailsham Copy Share Image
I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up. — Mary Cassatt Copy Share Image
There ought to be limits to freedom. We're aware of the site, and this guy is just a garbage man. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
A band ought to have a sound all of its own. It ought to have a personality. — Glenn Miller Copy Share Image
In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day. — Joachim du Bellay Copy Share Image
I refuse to see literature as amusement, as a game. I think that you ought not to approach literature without a moral… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
People allow themselves to get distracted; I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what… — David Allen Copy Share Image
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
I value science--none can prize it more, It gives ten thousand motives to adore: Be it religious, as it ought to be,… — Abraham Coles Copy Share Image
Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to… — Reid Hoffman Copy Share Image
If we should be saved and become saints, we ought always to stand at the gates of the Divine mercy to beg… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
I do not much believe in education. Each person ought to be his or her own model, however frightful that may be. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present… — Leopold von Ranke Copy Share Image
The comptroller of New York City ought to have all the characteristics of a major corporation's CFO - quiet rigor, obsessive care… — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Our doubts about ourselves cannot be banished except by working at that which is the one and only thing we know we… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary;… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't.… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image
You give me a credit to which I have no claim in calling me "the writer of the Constitution of the United… — James Madison Copy Share Image
During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The subject of Finnish poetry ought to have a special interest for the Japanese student, if only for the reason that Finnish… — Lafcadio Hearn Copy Share Image
The whole meaning of morality is a rule that we ought to obey whether we like it or not. If so, then… — J. Budziszewski Copy Share Image
A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
Some people are called to be a good sailor. Some people have a calling to be a good tiller of the land.… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that… — Eugene Delacroix Copy Share Image
“Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important. This… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Roosevelt could always keep ahead with his work, but I cannot do it, and I know it is a grievous fault, but… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
If the seminary is too large, it ought to be divided into smaller communities with formators who are equipped really to accompany… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
