Quotes 221 till 240 of 243.
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When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
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When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do - well, that's Memoirs.
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Who says it's poetry, anyhow?
My ten year old
can do it and rhyme.
Mr Hines says so, and he's a schoolteacher,
he ought to know.
Go and find workOdes What The Chairman Told Tom, II:6 -
Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.
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Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.
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Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.
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Women ought to feel a peculiar sympathy in the colored man's wrong, for, like him, she has been accused of mental inferiority, and denied the privileges of a liberal education.
Angelina Grimke
American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879) -
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
New Statesman and Nation, 15 July 1933 -
Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.'' Said the Cat. I don't much care where - Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
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Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''
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You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character -
You ought to be true for the sake of the folks who think you are true. You never should stoop to a deed that your folks think you would not do. If you are false to yourself, be the blemish but small, you have injured your folks; you have been false to them all.
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You shouldn't have to sue somebody to get justice. It ought to come through administrative process.
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You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.
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A cynic is a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, and not as they ought to be.
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A man ought to live so that everybody knows he is a Christian... and most of all, his family ought to know.
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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.
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Compromise. 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.
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