Man Ought Quotes

55 quotes by 47 authors

I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. — Emily Bronte
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it. — Raymond Chandler
Once in his life a man ought to concentrate his mind upon the remembered earth. He ought to give himself up to a particular landscape… — N. Scott Momaday
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow… — Frank Moore Colby
What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought… — Johann Kaspar Lavater
Three hours a day will produce as much as a man ought to write. — Anthony Trollope
No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come… — Martin Luther
The average man votes below himself; he votes with half a mind or a hundredth part of one. A man ought to vote with the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man… — Swami Vivekananda
False notions of liberty are strangely common. People talk of it as if it meant the liberty of doing whatever one likes - whereas the… — Frederick William Robertson
The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself.… — Alexander Hamilton
No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such — Marcus Aurelius
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire. — Thomas Carlyle
The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past… — Oscar Wilde
A wise man ought to realize that health is his most valuable possession. — Hippocrates
A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. — George Bernard Shaw
The art of injudicious reading, the art of miscellaneous reading which every normal man ought to cultivate, is a very fine and satisfactory art; for… — Maurice Francis Egan
No man ought to own more property than needed for his livelihood; the rest, by right, belonged to the state. — Benjamin Franklin
A man ought to do what he thinks is right — John Wayne
This is a wise, sane Christian faith: that a man commit himself, his life, and his hopes to God; that God undertakes the special protection… — George MacDonald

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