Man Ought Quotes

55 Man Ought quotes by 47 unique authors

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom… — George Eliot
Resistance to tyranny becomes the Christian and social duty of each individual… Continue steadfast and, with a proper sense of your dependence on God, nobly… — John Hancock
All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never… — Henry Ford
Man ought always to have something that he prefers to life; otherwise life itself will seem to him tiresome and void. — Johann Gottfried Seume
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people… — Harper Lee
A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His… — Ben Jonson
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, - a mere heart of stone. — Charles Darwin
I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose… — George Eliot
A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good. — Samuel Johnson
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they… — Niccolo Machiavelli
A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know. — Dwight L. Moody
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would… — Rainer Maria Rilke
The great American writer Herman Melville says somewhere in The White Whale that a man ought to be 'a patriot to heaven,' and I believe… — Jorge Luis Borges
[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres. — Arthur Schopenhauer
A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself. — Emily Bronte
Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the… — Niccolo Machiavelli
I am strongly of the opinion that, after the age of twenty-one, a man ought not to be out of bed and awake at four… — P.G. Wodehouse
The honest and good man ought to be exactly like a man who smells strong, so that the bystander as soon as he comes near… — Marcus Aurelius
That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no… — Jane Austen
The Americans as a nation are killing themselves with their vices and high living. As much as a man ought to eat in half an… — Brigham Young
He is also handsome," replied Elizabeth, "which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete. — Jane Austen
Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable — Miguel de Cervantes
Every boy in a free country ought to be instructed in boxing, wrestling, and the use of weapons. Every young man ought to be drilled.… — John Boyle O'Reilly
That settled Abraham Lincoln with me. I was thoroughly satisfied that no such man ought to be President; but I could not yet conceive it… — John Sergeant Wise
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once. — Horace Smith

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