The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head. — Elizabeth Bibesco Copy Share Image
He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci] — Pierre-Auguste Renoir Copy Share Image
True statesmanship is the art of changing a nation from what it is into what it ought to be. — William Rounseville Alger Copy Share Image
If your economy grows [by] 4 percent, you ought to reduce child mortality 4 percent. — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
You could drive past it without noticing and from what I understand, you ought to. — John Green Copy Share Image
Folks think that children will make up for all they ought to do and haven't done. — Josephine Lawrence Copy Share Image
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
People who don't know how to keep themselves healthy ought to have the decency to get themselves buried, and not waste time… — Henrik Ibsen Copy Share Image
They know not how many things are signified by the words stealing, sowing, buying, keeping quiet, seeing what ought to be done;… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
God, who is liberal in all his other gifts, shows us, by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and orchards as we have exhausted… — Julius Sterling Morton Copy Share Image
I'm the last survivor of a dead culture. And I don't really belong in the world anymore. And in some ways I… — Richard Stallman Copy Share Image
What we do know is that the American people, regardless of how they feel about the abortion issue, don't think that taxpayer… — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
HATE SIN! Instead of loving it, cleaving to it, excusing it, playing with it, we ought to hate it with a deadly… — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something… — George Boole Copy Share Image
Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan;… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with… — G. Campbell Morgan Copy Share Image
It ought not to be unpleasant to say that which one honestly believes or disbelieves. That it so constantly is painful to… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes… — Frederick William Robertson Copy Share Image
I think people have had too much to think and ought to flex their magic muscles. It takes awhile to get oriented… — Don Van Vliet Copy Share Image
Democrats are channeling their frustration with America's imminent military victory in Afghanistan into hysterical opposition to reasonable national security measures at home.… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
I am not what I ought to be! Ah! how imperfect and deficient! - I am not what I wish to be!… — John Newton Copy Share Image
People will always have the desire to make rock and roll records, and they'll always have the desire to sell rock and… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
Integrity is the factor that determines which one will prevail. We struggle daily with situations that demand decisions between what we want… — John C. Maxwell Copy Share Image
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly. What can be more base and unworthy than the… — William James 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
When you set about your composing, it may be necessary for your ease, and better distillation of wit, to put on your… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
We ought to be cautious in taking even the best ascertained opinions and practices of the primitive Church for our own. If… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Though this motion for a new trial is an application to the discretion of the Court, it must be remembered that the… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image