A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
404 quotes about ought follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.
Rene Descartes
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.
Charles Darwin
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
No government ought to be without censors & where the press is free, no one ever will.
Thomas Jefferson
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens
A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de Montaigne
Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.
Pythagoras
A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections, -- a mere heart of stone.
Charles Darwin
All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.
John Locke
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.
Sir Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.
Sir Francis Bacon
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.
Charlotte Bronte
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be.
Henri Frederic Amiel
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.
Thomas H. Huxley
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
John Adams
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.
James Madison
Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.
Alexander Hamilton
A man ought to do what he thinks is right.
John Wayne
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.
Blaise Pascal
We desire nothing so much as what we ought not to have.
Publilius Syrus
Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.
Flavius Josephus
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."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
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.
William Hazlitt
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
Henry Thomas Buckle
Well, he ought to drop to his knees and thank baby Jesus.
Mac Stipanovich
Say what you have to say, not what you ought. any truth is better than make-Believe!
Henry David Thoreau
Had Berlusconi not changed the electoral law, he would have won. Next time Berlusconi ought to have better consultants.
Gianfranco Pasquino
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are and doing things as they ought to be done.
Josh Billings
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 - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically to believe any philosophy, not even mine.
Bertrand Russell
You really can encourage people to behave in certain ways. But if we have plans that depend on human behavior, they ought to be realistic.
Baruch Fischhoff
I think the Legislature made a mistake by not paying attention, and I think when we make mistakes we ought to clean them up.
Sen. Mary Lundby
A chaste woman ought not to dye her hair yellow.
Menander Of Athens
We have a right to know. They ought to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly.
Mark Lanier
Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben gurion
We can make the chemicals we've talked about, make them into drugs and make them available. It ought to take the virus out in 24 hours.
Kary Mullis
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Robert C. Gallagher
In a democratic society, there ought to be some turnover. There ought to be some opportunity for other people to move along and exercise this enormous power that they have.
Paul Carrington
Teaching, real teaching, is -- or ought to be -- a messy business.
Harry Crews
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
Horace Smith
If a fine is levied and the appeal process is run, (MSHA) ought to collect it. You ought to comply with the law, period.
Bill Caylor
Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too.
Ninon de Lenclos
The fixed terms are there for a purpose, and that is to protect the independence of the appointee, ... I don't think they ought to change the law.
Andrew Brimmer
Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
W. H. Auden
Anyone who goes up against Kenneth Starr ought to be worried.
Susan Mcdougal
Americans are a race of convicts and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.
Samuel Johnson
They ought to be willing to jump through hoops to get that deal.
Jake Haulk
True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to will, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to will.
Jonathan Edwards
I had wanted them so much to be like the other kids. There was no reason for them not to have the kind of things that they ought to have.
Wally Snyder
They ought to just give him a key.
Ron Ullery
So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something else with them besides think.
Anita Loos
We believe in a biblical model of leadership in the home ... which is the man is a spiritual leader of his home and ought to lead by example spiritually in the home.
Promise Keepers
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
The employer ought to be given the benefit of the doubt here if they have acted in a reasonable way.
Lewis Maltby
The business of government ought to be government, not business. I do think there's been too much of a blurring of the line between the proper role of business and the proper role of government.
Darryl Paulson
It appears credible that the opposition is winning. The U.S. believes the (Yugoslav) government ought to respect the will of the people.
Charles Hunter
All else being equal, past officeholders ought to have an advantage, but all things are rarely equal.
John Green
I'm all for fire stations near to everyone as can be. But they should be put in commercial areas. I'm well aware of the not-in-my-backyard idea, but there ought to be better thought to where they are put.
Stanley Walker
I've always been against such arguments, ... If we followed them [to their logical conclusion], then all of the Native American artifacts in England and Europe ought to be repatriated, and all of the European/Chinese/Indian art in American museums should go back, too.
Cathy Wright
Where's our majority, they're the one's who ought to be here listening to this. This is information we really and truly ought to be concentrating on.
Bill Summers
I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.
Lord Brabazon
We ought to give people who don't want to go back to New Orleans the means to disperse into middle-class areas nationwide.
David Brooks
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.
Rebecca West
Everybody thinks these rich counties ought to be able to take care of themselves.
Rep. Richard Chalk
I felt like I ought to be doing something, and here I am doing something that is fun and that I like to do. I figured I would sell about six cars a month, and in my first 100 days I sold 50 cars, and now I've sold right around 120 cards in my first six months.
Deane Dotson
I still think they ought to give it back.
Richard Richards
The whole idea (of accreditation) is that a college education ought to stand for something.
Alan Contreras
Actors are rogues and vagabonds. Or they ought to be.
Helen Mirren
We ought to be tired of empty buildings. If they tear down Roosevelt, you'll have another big, empty lot. If you have a hole in the ground, you have a hole in the community. If Roosevelt goes, so goes the community.
Curtis Johnson
I think that it is an excellent school, but it ought also to be a model for how to conduct employee relations, between an employer and an employee, and I don't think that it does that.
David Cohen
It seems to me that states ought to be able to have laws to protect the citizens of their state. I don't see where the Coast Guard should have the right to say 'No, you can't'.
Gary Lewis
You create a problem, you ought to pay for it.
Coy Privette
They ought to be able to have a party, but it would be wise if they didn't accept cash contributions for it. My problem was using the House floor to advertise this. Hopefully, it won't happen again.
Rep. Gerald Mccormick
It's inevitable that we will some day have a motor fleet that gets 40 miles to the gallon. And if it's inevitable, we ought to be doing it sooner rather than later.
Randy Udall
Anyone who thinks the Michigan or U.S. Constitutions ought to be enforced would be opposed to these grants.
Robert Bruno
Good intentions are at least, the seed of good actions; and every one ought to sow them, and leave It to the soil and the seasons whether He or any other gather they fruit.
William Temple, Sr.
We ought to ask ourselves, if it's good for a kid, then why is it only available to kids whose families have money?
Deval Patrick
The seasons are what a symphony ought to be: four perfect movements in harmony with each other.
Arthur Rubenstein
There ought to be a complete skeleton of T. rex in New Mexico, we just haven't found one. T. rex as a fossil is very rare.
Spencer Lucas
It ought to be showing off Austin as arising in film making.
Bruce Todd
There's something you ought to know. I slept with Cosmo last night.
Pinky Mulligan
In my opinion butlers ought To know their place, and not to play The Old Retainer night and day.
Joachim Du Bellay
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Thomas Paine
There's so many rare documents that you may never get the opportunity to see again. Anybody that's interested in Texas ought to come.
John Blades
Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left.
David M. Ogilvy
We have been having a good time, and been cooking, ... You ought to see their faces. It's a joy, an absolute joy.
Paul Prudhomme
There's a mismatch between what we do and what people think on the Hill. If anything, this industry has been too modest. We ought to be shouting from the rooftops.
Kyle Mcslarrow
It's something they ought to be able to live with.
R. Hamisi Ingram
It seems to me that they ought to have enough money to build a new stadium and to locate or relocate wherever they want to.
Steve Landes
They're heroes, not criminals, ... Somebody ought to be giving them medals.
James Cobb
Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.
Peter da Silva
That's something we all need to be sure of, ... We just want to do what everyone thinks we ought to do. I request that [any naming] not be just among you and us.
Donald Black
We should have won. If you have the lead in overtime, you ought to win.
Todd Foster
Going into this week, we felt it was important to win both of these games. We felt we were better than both of the teams we played, we felt we should win, and I'm happy that we did. It ought to boost our confidence.
Frank Rossi
We were just talking about things after the game, and she said, 'You guys know I'm not happy here in Utah without my family, so I'm going home tomorrow.' We just said thanks, and let us know what happens to you. She's always been homesick, and she hasn't like being so far away from home. If she's homesick, she's not going to help us. Home is probably where she ought to be.
Jace Hymas
If it makes China's currency appreciate against the dollar, I would imagine that ought to be a positive thing for Chinese imports, such as oil.
Wayne Harburn
The choice before us is plain: Christ or chaos, conviction or compromise, discipline or disintegration...The time is come- it is now- when we ought to hear about the duties and responsibilities of our citizenship. America's future depends upon her accepting and demonstrating God's government.
Peter Marshall
The lure of money is greater than ever. The minute they run a fast time, everyone's whispering in their ear, telling them they ought to go pro. And every athlete wants to do it.
Renaldo Nehemiah
There are two freedoms; The false, where man is free to do what he likes; The true, where man is free to do what he ought.
Charles Kingsley
I think a coach ought to be able to give his opinion and coach his team. I didn't see anything myself that should have gotten (Byrd) ejected from the game.
Thomas Billups
We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.
Richard Cecil
Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.
John Maynard Keynes
What office is there which involves more responsibility, which requires more qualifications, and which ought, therefore, to be more honorable, than that of teaching?
Harriet Martineau
You ought to see the belt he won. It's like the ones you see on TV.
Carlos Duncan
Copying all or parts of a program is as natural to a programmer as breathing, and as productive. It ought to be as free.
Richard Stallman
You ought to know what a crusade is. They started in Spain.
Furman Bisher
All the publicity will probably suggest to other companies that there's something here they ought to be looking at.
Peter Wallison
For a full examination of the truth, you ought to be able to take in the context of a person's past behavior to explain current behavior, ... Among the most egregious crimes are sex offenses against children.
David Morse
Prices are where they ought to be in relation to the price of crude oil. There may be some more movement up or down, but we don't expect it to do much more than where it is now over the next month or two.
Mike Burdette
The Netherlands is a nation where people ought to want to meet one another, where cultures meet each other.
Jan Peter Balkenende
The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.
Demosthenes
I think we ought to have more dialogue on this. It's so different from what we've done.
Richard Lake
A man is simple when his chief care is the wish to be what he ought to be, that is honestly and naturally human.
Charles Wagner
More tech companies ought to be paying dividends.
John Snyder
I counsel anyone who asks me, they ought to get out of their adjustable-rate mortgage now if they're going to live in their house for more than three or four years.
Christopher Davis
But the longer we live, the more we appreciate what got us where we are. I am glad to see they have restored much of the original woodwork and these columns especially. If you've got this stuff, you ought not hide it.
Jim Clyburn
We think customers are better off when they have a choice and that they ought to have a choice.
David Flanagan
I think every good Christian ought to kick Falwell right in the ass.
Barry Goldwater
It ought to be interesting.
Chris Hedges
Some of the workers had expressed an interest in having the ability to organize, and I felt that they ought to have the ability to organize if they want to without any fear of intimidation from (the county) relative to that organization. It was a rights issue for me.
Commissioner Sam Hart
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, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.
Ambrose Bierce
There are many, many different ideas. People are not yet ready to move ahead under the convention. The Kyoto (members) though, ought to be able to move ahead under the protocol.
Harlan Watson
Alan has not been healthy, in my opinion, ... Alan is just now, with this bye week, ought to be fully healthy. That will be an asset we'll have to utilize.
Brian Billick
I think we ought to find a way to do it.
Yvonne Johnson
Energy ought to be more expensive around here to pay for the consequences that wreak havoc on the environment. Low cost doesn't let alternatives gain a foothold.
William Schlesinger
Right and wrong will be a part of it. Is this a behavior we ought to protect or we ought to cure? I would say homosexuality is something that ought to be cured.
Joseph Fuiten
That's what an education ought to be about: presenting to young people a variety of choices and let them make the decision.
Gary Bauer
People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.
Saul Bellow
If we're having a diversity day, it ought to be really a diversity day and show different perspectives.
Mat Staver
If you're going to call for the manager's head, the manager ought to be consulted first.
Mark Doumit
This is a unilateral declaration on the part of the French president, and it's something he ought to have discussed with his European partners first.
Gert Weisskirchen
I have two senior guards, and we've been here before. That makes a big difference. We ought to have more poise than some of the other teams.
Dorne Hall
Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
C. E. Stowe
He's perfect... perfect. You ought to see him. He's just a little thing, but he'll get bigger as time goes by, and we just can't wait for him to come home.
Debra Robinson
It ought to be recognized for what it is: an absolutely historic investment by the County of Los Angeles.
Zev Yaroslavsky
They're going to be short, but they ought to be pretty powerful.
John Starnes
It seems like to me, most of the championships ought to be in the middle of the state. It gives the fans easier travel. Coming from the Upstate to Columbia, coming from the Lower State to Columbia.
John Mckissick
It was almost like doing homework last time. We ought to do better this time. The only thing we had to deal with up there was the weather, it was cold both days.
Garry Moore
I think there's a strong argument that it ought not to be located in downtown Washington because of the desire to have some distance, you know, between ourselves and some other buildings.
Michael Chertoff
Some people say we ought to go back to the good, old days, but what were they?
Phil Harding
I was thinking on Wednesday perhaps I ought to go home, even though I knew what I was doing wrong.
Paul Broadhurst
May I forget what ought to be forgotten; and recall, unfailing, all that ought to be recalled, each kindly thing, forgetting what might sting.
Mary Caroline Davies
We are a conservative county, and Rick ought to know that.
Keith Self
I've had an opinion on it for a number of years and that is that we ought to build it. I hope we're gonna address it this session.
Sen Clark Jenkins
The coach at Ninety Six told coach Sharpe she really ought to be recruiting me. A lot of the local schools were recruiting me, but she hadn't heard of me until the Ninety Six coach mentioned me.
Brenda Jackson
Courage is... the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared.
David Ben gurion
Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love and be irritated with.
Louise Erdrich
One lesson that we might draw from this incident is that we shouldn't be asking so many questions of jurors. Maybe we should just be asking if they have ever been convicted of a crime, that we ought to know. But, do we really need to know about every arrest and every civil lawsuit and what television programs they watch?
Albert Alschuler
We ought to be able to have dinner every now and again without the media being there.
Tom Atkins
Representatives of every sport were here for Coach Pettit. It wasn't unanimous, but it ought to be about the kids. You saw what they said.
John Truitt
The board felt that with the two connections being virtually identical, they ought to have the same price. They approved the fee of $28,000 based on the similarity of the connection in Francis Creek. The authority is prepared to absorb the difference.
Dave Vaclavik
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Anna Quindlen
Families ought to be careful of who you let come around your home. Because if you don't really know them, they might be checking you out.
Larry Barnett
A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and in fleeing them the cowardice of the heart.
Pietro Aretino
Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham
I believe that our employees ought to be able to vote on the offer we've presented, ... I have faith and confidence in the employees of Boeing that they're going to speak their mind and they're going to express their wills.
Jerry Calhoun
Our model is to have a lot of people offering highly tailored solutions in local markets. A lot of the other hosting models (from competitors) have more of a model of one-flavor CRM that they think everybody ought to use, and there's not much chance to add custom extensions.
Brad Wilson
I'm lost for words. I never thought it was that bad. It ought to be mandatory for every American to see it.
Bob Cummins
Log Cabin Republicans believe that at a time when our country is at war, we ought to be bringing Republicans together, not dividing them, and certainly not excluding them from their own state convention.
Patrick Guerriero
Government ought not to be telling employers what they should be paying. The market should be dictating the wages.
David Daniel
They should be investigating. Anybody who has a lead, if they've overheard something or someone close to the campaign, they ought to tell BYU.
Dave Bailey
We need people to fill out all the fields in a meaningful fashion. Everyone ought to know what's going on.
Dr. Jeffrey Drazen
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
Barbra Streisand
I cannot get John Edwards and John Kerry -- maybe they ought to meld here. And I think maybe they might at some point in this campaign.
David Bonior
The Web ought to be an always-on personal assistant. It ought to know who you are and where you are and understand the context of what you're trying to do, and do things on your behalf.
Patrick Grady
If this is an option we can offer and do it the right way, then I think we ought to do it.
Rep. Kris Steele
To me, Bush is saying, 'I agree with the Democrats that the federal government ought to have an activist role.' He's becoming Democrat-light.
Bill Carrick
It certainly raises a big red flag when Lilly is attempting to sidestep the entire issue. They ought to be upfront and honest with Minnesota and other shareholders if this is an action they are considering.
Brian Mcclung
We ought to have a seat at the table so we can protect the interests of workers.
Chuck Collins
A man ought to work. That's what he's here for. That's how he contributes to the welfare of the community.
W. Somerset Maugham
These comments by Democrats today are again part of their concerted effort to demonize Newt Gingrich, trying to do through the ethics process what they couldn't do at the ballot box. We won the election. They ought to just get on with it and grow up.
John Boehner
What they put on the ground to live in, they ought to pay for, ... That's what I believe.
Ann Crowley
The first Benji came out of a shelter and, without a whole lot of mission and passion attached -- just that it was a neat thing -- caused over a million adoptions. And so we said 'If we go back at it with a little fervor, we ought to be able to do a lot better than that and help a lot of these homeless animals,' .
Joe Camp
What you have in the bank, according to the data, does not matter all that much. What really matters is the gap between what is there and what you think you ought to have. Millionaires can feel relatively poor.
Andrew Oswald
I think he's just entering his prime. The next three, four, five years, he ought to be as good as there is in the league.
Chuck Priefer
Japan ought to refer to (the Bank of England's 2% inflation target).
Hidenao Nakagawa
He gives the impression of tranquility, yes, ... But there's a great depth of personality there, and a sort of fatherliness. You definitely feel that you ought to take his advice.
Greg Bender
When you?re in this business you ought to make a decision.
Larry Meyer
The township is not allowed to discriminate between cell phone towers, Maybe it ought to be moved.
Nick Tinari
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.