Ought Quotes

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done.

We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us.

I absolutely do believe that we need to not be so myopic. We ought to throw open widely the windows on the world in order to learn more about it.

Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.

Religion and liberty are inseparable. Religion is voluntary, and cannot and ought not to be forced.

Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve.

You ought not to heal the body without the soul, for this is the great error of our day in treating the human body.

Someone ought to get Haymitch a drink.

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.

We ought not to have to wait for sorrow before we can appreciate the sweetness of joy.

There ought to be an absolute dictatorship... a dictatorship of painters... a dictatorship of one painter... to suppress all those who have betrayed us.

Art is never chaste. It ought to be forbidden to ignorant innocents, never allowed into contact with those not sufficiently prepared. Yes, art is dangerous. Where it is chaste, it is not art.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

It is much safer for the prince to be feared than loved, but he ought to avoid making himself hated.

Men ought either to be well treated, or crushed.

Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.

We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.

I believe that the American people ought to be part of the conversation about what's happening in our economy, and what's happening in Washington and what's happening on Wall Street.

My male colleagues sometimes wonder if I understand as much about defense as I ought to. Of course if I agree with them, they think that I do.

Traditional marriage between a man and a woman has been a cornerstone of our society for generations. If we are going to change that, it ought to be done by the will of the people.

In addition to temples, surely another holy place on earth ought to be our homes. The feelings of holiness in my home prepared me for feelings of holiness in the temple.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.

Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable

Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the establishment of justice and liberty.

There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse.

A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not.

Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich.

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Shrimps ought to stay small and curled up in their cocktail sauce, if you ask me.

Tools and techniques ought to be an extension of consciousness, but they can just as easily be a protection from consciousness. Then the tools become defence mechanisms... against the unconscious.

Dullness is the only crime for which an editor ought to be hung.

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

One of these days I'm going to write a book on drops. That ought to sell. The shot's become more popular than putting.

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

If you follow your bliss you will find a path laid out before you that has been waiting for you all along and you will begin to live the life you ought to be living.

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 for the language.

I forget whether advice be among the lost things which Ariosto says are to be found in the moon: that and time ought to have been there.

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

As a general rule, nobody has money who ought to have it.

I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.

The praises of others may be of use in teaching us, not what we are, but what we ought to be.

The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought to awaken every man to the active prosecution of whatever he is desirous to perform.