Critics ought never to be consulted, but while errors may yet be rectified or insipidity suppressed. But when the book has once… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
What ought one to say then as each hardship comes? I was practicing for this, I was training for this. — Epictetus Copy Share Image
The ties of virtue ought to be closer than the ties of blood, since the good man is closer to another good… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
An actor who knows his business ought to be able to make the London telephone directory sound enthralling. — Donald Sinden Copy Share Image
However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat. Ay any… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
I think men of science as well as other men need to learn from Christ, and I think Christians whose minds are… — James Clerk Maxwell Copy Share Image
I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet. But at the end, that article wasn't very… — Jon Postel Copy Share Image
Today, there is a whole generation of Christian men who are laughing at things that ought to make them weep, and not… — R. Kent Hughes Copy Share Image
A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he's making money for other people ought to get… — Babe Ruth Copy Share Image
To love God as He ought to be loved, we must be detached from all temporal love. We must love nothing but… — Peter Claver Copy Share Image
The biggest lesson I've learned . . . was that if you have all the fresh water you want to drink and… — Eddie Rickenbacker Copy Share Image
There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Marco [Rubio] is a gifted politician. He is incredibly gifted. And he needs to be able to do his job. He's going… — Jeb Bush Copy Share Image
God has stated in clear and concise language how He created the universe and we ought not to doubt His Word. — Walter Lang Copy Share Image
One ought to have the right to have a secret and to spring it as a surprise. But if you live inside… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
I had a new idea in my head... this time it's just simply my bedroom, only here colour is to do everything,… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
When "Search and Destroy" by the Stooges came on as a Nike shoe commercial, I got physically sick. That song meant the… — Jello Biafra Copy Share Image
The liberty of conscience, which above all other things ought to be to all men dearest and most precious. — John Milton Copy Share Image
If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if… — David Weber Copy Share Image
We ought to say, "Occupy Wall Street, not Iraq," "Occupy Wall Street, not Afghanistan," "Occupy Wall Street, not Palestine." The two need… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
What I thought we ought to try to do in a book like this is to focus closely on Lincoln, himself, to… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The public lands are a public stock, which ought to be disposed of to the best advantage for the nation. — James Monroe Copy Share Image
In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he… — Philip Neri Copy Share Image
Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Life ought to be lived on a basis of silence, where truth blossoms. — Dorothy Richardson Copy Share Image
Our great Pattern hath showed us what our deportment ought to be in all suggestions and temptations. When the devil showed Him… — John Owen Copy Share Image
Never, never, never let yourself feel that anybody ought to do anything for you. Once you become a duty you also become… — Marjorie Hillis Copy Share Image
We would have to make clear to our German ally our disagreement on three points: treatment of the occupied countries, excesses towards… — Ugo Cavallero Copy Share Image
To answer the purpose of the adversaries of the Constitution, they ought to prove, not merely that particular provisions in it are… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The method of authority will always govern the mass of mankind; and those who wield the various forms of organized force in… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
People who praise illness as bringing out the best in people ought to have their heads examined. Pain forces you to think… — Rae Foley Copy Share Image
Donald Trump has shown us who he is. And we ought to believe him. He is taking a hate movement mainstream. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
People have a right to their own lives, and if you can't help somebody, you ought to get out of their way. — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
Ethics is not about the way things are, it is about the way things ought to be. — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image