Ought Quotes

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note… — Henry Ward Beecher
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
There is a note in the front of the volume saying that no public reading may be given without first getting the author's permission. It… — Robert Benchley
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government. — Jeremy Bentham
Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life. — Irving Berlin
If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an… — Wendell Berry
Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. — Ambrose Bierce
Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have,… — Ambrose Bierce
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings
No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it… — George Boole
I know one husband and wife who, whatever the official reasons given to the court for the break up of their marriage, were really divorced… — Vera Brittain
Every individual ought to know at least one poet from cover to cover: if not as a guide through the world, then as a yardstick… — Joseph Brodsky
You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable… — Charlotte Bronte
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
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. — Edmund Burke
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. — Edmund Burke
The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do,… — Edmund Burke
I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money. — Barbara Bush
I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun. — George W. Bush
I've always believed that if you support reform or you support a particular idea that you ought to fund that idea first and not the… — Jeb Bush

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