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Ought Quotes by Mark Twain
- He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.
- Surely the ass who invented the first religion ought to be the first ass damned
- I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I…
- Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one…
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost…
- My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days,…
- I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous…
- Heaven knows insanity was disreputable enough, long ago; but now that the lawyers have got to cutting every gallows rope and picking every prison lock…
- It now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one...the Descent of Man from…
- A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
- Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution.
- Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have…
- The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.
- The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and…
- The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try…
- There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.
- It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some…
- To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the…
- A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years…
More Ought Quotes
- If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to… — Teresa of Avila
- Smarmy little prig,†Will snarled, leaning father forward, as if he longed to reach through the magical portal and strangle Gabriel. “When… — Cassandra Clare
- The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many for love. — Margaret Atwood
- Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Some reasonable term ought to be allowed to enable aliens to get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments; to learn the… — Alexander Hamilton
- If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of… — Mark Twain
- A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment… — A. A. Gill
- An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs. — John Ashcroft