Every man is a consumer, and ought to be a producer. He is by constitution expensive, and needs to be rich. Ralph Waldo Emerson American Poet More Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes 54
Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children. Samuel Butler British Poet More Samuel Butler Quotes 4
The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any. Marilyn Monroe American Actress More Marilyn Monroe Quotes 3
All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree. James Madison American President More James Madison Quotes 3
Treat a man as he is, he will remain so. Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.". Goethe More Goethe Quotes 2
There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators. Will Rogers American Actor More Will Rogers Quotes 1
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates Greek Philosopher More Socrates Quotes 1
To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely. Edmund Burke Irish Statesman More Edmund Burke Quotes 1
Nobody can deny but religion is a comfort to the distressed, a cordial to the sick, and sometimes a restraint on the wicked; therefore whoever would argue or laugh it out of the world without giving some equivalent for it ought to be treated as a common enemy. Mary Wortley Montagu English Writer More Mary Wortley Montagu Quotes 1
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish Essayist More Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes 1
It's a little odd to make it a requirement. On the other hand, colleges and schools ought to be discussing it. It's a good cause and good document. Jeremy Lewis More Jeremy Lewis Quotes 1
It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week. Ezra Pound American Poet More Ezra Pound Quotes 1
Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. Martin Luther King, Jr. American Leader More Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes 1
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity. Honore de Balzac French Novelist More Honore de Balzac Quotes 1
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 are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli Italian Writer More Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes 1
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be. Clementine Paddleford American Journalist More Clementine Paddleford Quotes 1
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Thomas Paine English Writer More Thomas Paine Quotes 0
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary. Thomas Paine English Writer More Thomas Paine Quotes 0
If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles! Blaise Pascal French Philosopher More Blaise Pascal Quotes 0
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. Blaise Pascal French Philosopher More Blaise Pascal Quotes 0
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world. Edgar Quinet French Historian More Edgar Quinet Quotes 0
You have reckoned that history ought to judge the past and to instruct the contemporary world as to the future. The present attempt does not yield to that high office. It will merely tell how it really was. Leopold Von Ranke German Historian More Leopold Von Ranke Quotes 0
But we ought to consider the natural form and shape of a horse, that we may work him according to nature. William Cavendish British Public Servant More William Cavendish Quotes 0
"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other. Marquis de Sade French Novelist More Marquis de Sade Quotes 0