Ought Quotes

Idolatry is worshipping anything that ought to be used, or using anything that is meant to be worshipped.

It is strange how the elderly fall silent when they ought to go on speaking, obliging the young to learn everything from scratch.

In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it.

All of us, whether or not we're celebrities, every one ought to spend part of their life making someone else's life better.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden.

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

To say that majorities, as such, have a right to rule minorities, is equivalent to saying that minorities have, and ought to have, no rights, except such as majorities please to allow them.

I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.

One ought only to write when one leaves a piece of one's own flesh in the inkpot, each time one dips one's pen.

You ought to run the hardest when you feel the worst. Never let the other guy know you're down.

We ought to love our Maker for His own sake, without either hope of good or fear of pain.

An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.

Some preachers ought to put more fire into their sermons or more sermons into the fire.

Anyone who sees and paints a sky green and fields blue ought to be sterilized.

Interpreted as it ought to be interpreted, the constitution is a Glorious Liberty Document!

Leaders must see reality as it is, not as it ought to be.

A husband who submits to his wife's yoke is justly held an object of ridicule. A woman's influence ought to be entirely concealed.

Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light.

There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that.

He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages.

The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right of being able to do what we ought.

Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to suffer death.

Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling

Whoever had the bright idea of putting Indiana Jones in a leather jacket and a fedora in the jungle ought to be dragged into the street and shot.

Kids ought to have two bicycles, one to ride and one to rent.

Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.

An infinite God ought to be able to protect Himself, without going in partnership with State Legislatures.

The same people that tell me what I ought to have is the same people asking for an autograph.

Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself.

One ought to be afraid of nothing other then things possessed of power to do us harm, but things innoucuous need not be feared.

A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener.

The war affects me less than it ought. But I can do no service to anybody by agitating for news or making dole over the slaughter.

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

There ain't many troubles that a man caint fix With seven hundred dollars and a thirty ought six.

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

One ought to be mixed up with the world and to be able to wash one's hands of it - to be part of the world and also outside it. One [needs] to be both involved and detached at the same time.

Which way you ought to go depends on where you want to get to.

Mass ought to be in Latin, unless you could do it in Greek or Chinese. In fact, any abracadabra that no bloody member of the public or half-educated ape of a clargimint could think he understood.

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

All such men are, or ought to be, agreed, that simple governments are despotisms; and of all despotisms, a democracy, though the least durable, is the most violent.

If you are not offending people who ought to be offended, you're doing something wrong.